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GROWMARK Announces 2024 Scholarship Winners

Fifty-four students have been selected to receive scholarships totaling $2,000 each through the GROWMARK Foundation. Nearly 500 students from across the United States and Ontario, Canada, applied for the scholarships. Students who received the scholarships will have those funds available for the fall 2024 semester.

“As a diverse wholesale agricultural cooperative, GROWMARK sees value in supporting students who are pursuing careers in agriculture as well as any business-related field," said GROWMARK CEO Mark Orr. "We’re excited to be able to help these students achieve their academic goals while also showing them that our industry is full of opportunities including working for GROWMARK or an FS company after they graduate.”

Scholarship recipients are divided into three categories:

Agriculture focus– students earning an associate degree from a community college or technical school. Recipients of this scholarship are:

Name Program School
Adelyn Sienknecht Ag - Associate North Tama High School
Ally Cytrych Ag - Associate Black Hawk College - East Campus
Alyssa Miller Ag - Associate University of Wisconsin Platteville
Amanda Ostrem Ag - Associate Des Moines Area Community College
Amber Lee Ag - Associate Durand High School
Ava Sylvester Ag - Associate Fillmore Central School
Bryce Hatfield       Ag - Associate West Franklin High School
Charlie Ring Ag - Associate Effingham High School
Dallis Beverlin Ag - Associate Shasta College
Dylan Jenkins Ag - Associate Woodland School
Elizabeth Shaffer Ag - Associate Olympia High School
Emma Kuhl Ag - Associate Michigan State University
Emma Pistorius Ag - Associate Meridian High School
Joselyn Kocher Ag - Associate Richland County High School
Laney Burns Ag - Associate Tucker County High School
Maycee Moore Ag - Associate Red Hill Jr./Sr. High School
Morgan Knoblett Ag - Associate Palestine High School
Paris Van Dyke Ag - Associate North Clay High School
Tucker Stagemeyer Ag - Associate Butler Community College
Walker Chandler Ag - Associate Stratford High School

Agriculture focus– students earning a bachelor’s degree or higher from a university. Recipients of this scholarship are:

Name Program School
Alexandra Zvenigorodsky Ag - Bachelors Washington State University
Carmen Trotta Ag - Bachelors University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Cheyenne Bastian-Brown Ag - Bachelors Pennsylvania State University
Eliza Patchin Ag - Bachelors Iowa State University
Eric Wisely      Ag - Bachelors Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Jordan Oliver Ag - Bachelors University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Katelyn Engel Ag - Bachelors University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Lauren Gatz Ag - Bachelors Kansas State University
Madison Schneider Ag - Bachelors Southeast Missouri State University
Mary Holley Ag - Bachelors Ohio State University
Nicholas Beckner Ag - Bachelors Adams Central High School
Ojas Shah Ag - Bachelors Normal Community High School
Rain Vasey Ag - Bachelors Eastern Kentucky University
Raksha Thapa Ag - Bachelors Cornell University
Ram Neupane Ag - Bachelors Pennsylvania State University
Ryleigh Whitaker Ag - Bachelors Cisco High School
Samantha Stamm Ag - Bachelors Oklahoma State University
Steven Tri Ag - Bachelors Iowa State University
Zachary Kampwerth Ag - Bachelors Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Business focus – students earning a bachelor’s degree or higher from a university. Recipients of this scholarship are:

Name Program School
Abby Ruebush Business Normal Community High School
Addison Fair Business Gardner South Wilmington High School
Addison Kampwerth Business University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ahmed Aamir Business University of Waterloo
Ali Stecker Business Ashland University
Cole Sarbacker Business Stoughton High School
Ella Bussell Business Rockcastle County High School
Emlie Limoges        Business Black Hawk College
Grace Sparwasser Business Marian High School
Krrisha Patel Business Secaucus High School
Marcella Anderson Business Geneva Community High School
Matthew Freel Business Kingwood High School
Michael Golla Business Memorial Early College High School
Olivia Acheampong Business Illinois State University
Talan Miller Business St. Joseph-Ogden High School

GROWMARK is an agricultural cooperative serving almost 400,000 customers across North America, providing agronomy, energy, facility engineering and construction, and logistics products and services, as well as grain marketing and risk management services. Headquartered in Bloomington, Illinois, GROWMARK owns the FS trademark, which is used by member cooperatives. More information is available at GROWMARK.com.

 

 

CONTACT:
Madison Kimpling
Student Recruiting Manager
GROWMARK
309-557-6429
[email protected]

 

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