Grants & Scholarships

Grant Writing Workshops - Facilitator

NEF; Innovative Teaching Grant

$5,000.00 – Aquaponics: Tank to Table
- Awarded - 2017
- This grant allows teachers and students to engage in a meaningful, hands-on learning. Aimed to replicate a sustainable agriculture model by combining of aquaculture (raising fish) and hydroponics (the soil-less growing of plants) that grows fish and plants together in one integrated system. The fish waste provides an organic food source for the plants, and the plants naturally filter the water for the fish.
  - Increased cross-curricular learning, where the aim is to partner with the culinary department to provide a constant supply of farm raised fish, vegetables, and herbs.

NEF; Innovative Teaching Grant

$3,297.00 – NextGen Vets – 21^st Century Veterinarian
- Awarded - 2016
- Provided valuable resources [consumables and non-consumables] to the Veterinary Medicine pathway to better facilitate interactive, hands-on learning experiences.
  - Elevating the rigor of the classroom experiences, increase certification success (TVMA - Level 1), and aided in the success of the 2016 Reserve National Champion Veterinary Science CDE Team.

National FFA Organization; Grants for Growing

$500.00 – Byron Boarding
- Awarded - 2015
- Students within the Veterinary Medicine and Agricultural pathways additional hands-on learning opportunities by engaging in the student enterprise 'Byron Boarding.' By effectively operating key components of a boarding business, students are able to show mastery of technical knowledge and further refine professional skills.
  - Providing students a competitive advantage.
    - "Learning to Do"

National FFA Organization; Grants for Growing

$1500.00 – Supervised Agricultural Experience
- Awarded - 2015
- Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE) is a student-led, instructor-supervised, workbased learning experience that results in measurable outcomes. Through SAEs, students get hand-on experience, explore careers, find their passion, and put their talents to work!
  - Education with a purpose, allows students to find their 'why.'
    - "If the want-to is strong enough, the how-to will come."
  - Nationally Syndicated Radio Interview

Student Academic & Extracurricular Scholarships

> $150,000 – Trade School &/or Four-Year Institute(s)
- Awarded to students from 2011-2018
- Nearly 90% of agricultural education students attribute post-secondary success to scholarships awarded though the nations largest CTSO, the National FFA Organization.
  - Scholarships have help students, who have discovered the career they want to pursue, attend post-secondary training [if required], go on to accomplish their career ambitions.

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