INDIANAPOLIS - The National FFA Organization awarded a $1,000 Cargill Community Scholarship to Ashley Sheetz, of Tippecanoe Valley High School FFA.
Cargill Community Scholarship Program, as a special project of the National FFA Foundation, sponsors the scholarship.
Sheetz plans to use the funds to pursue a degree at Purdue University, West Lafayette.
This scholarship is one of 1,446 awarded through the National FFA Scholarship Program this year. Currently, 132 corporate sponsors contribute more than $1.9 million to support this program. This is the 26th year that scholarships have been made available through the National FFA Foundation by business and industry sponsors to reward and encourage excellence and enable students to pursue their educational goals.Scholarship recipients were selected from 8,305 applicants from across the country. Selections were based on the applicant's academic record, FFA and other school and community activities, supervised agricultural experience program in agricultural education and future goals.
