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Hill Country Master
Gardeners Horticulture Scholarship
Hill Country Master Gardeners
awards $2,000 financial assistance (split between fall and
spring semesters)
to two
students pursuing a degree in Horticulture Science at one
of the four state universities. The four schools offering
this degree are Texas A&M at College Station, Texas Tech,
Tarleton State, and Stephen F. Austin University.
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Applicants
must be full time students (12 hours per semester
undergraduate or 9 hours per semester graduate student) in
at least the second year of horticulture studies with a
minimum 3.0 grade
average.
► Applications
are available through the academic advisors at each
university who in turn recommend potential recipients
to the Hill Country Master Gardeners Scholarship
Committee. Applications for the school year
2012 - 2013 will be available January 1, 2012.
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If you are a student at one of these schools and would
like to apply you can find the application by clicking
here |
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Chris Von Kohn was our very first scholarship
recipient, and we are proud that we can say we have been a
small part of Chris' success story. Chris attended our
December 2011 meeting to share what he has been doing
since his graduation from Texas A&M. He also brought some
of his own hybrid daylily seedlings as door prizes.
Read more about Chris and
visit his new website for Rush Creek Daylilies. |
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We
proudly introduce
the 2011 - 2012 Scholarship Winners
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It
was the consensus of the scholarship committee that there
were three equal and very worthy candidates among this
years applicants. The solution was obvious — award three
scholarships rather than two! Hill Country Master
Gardeners are proud to introduce you this year's
recipients.
Anna Boettcher
is a senior at Texas A&M University,
majoring in Horticulture with a minor in Business. Her area of specialization is in landscape design, and she loves
using unique patterns with various types of hardscapes in
unfamiliar places in a residential landscape. Anna has
been an avid member of both the Texas A&M University
Horticulture Club and SAIFD (Student American Institute of
Floral Design) Club for two years. Anna one day hopes to
own her own landscape design business in the Dallas/Ft.
Worth area.
Kevin Evenson is junior majoring in Horticultural Science
with specialization in
Viticulture and Enology
in the Department
of Plant & Soil Science at Texas Tech
University. When not attending classes, Kevin works as a
biology aid in the
USDA-ARS soil
microbiology/chemistry lab, and on the weekends he works for
a local landscaping company. All this, while rearing three
small children. After graduating, his short-term goals
include
acquiring more knowledge and experience through master
school or employment and volunteer work in the fields of
organic fruit production, community gardening, edible
landscaping, native plants, and permaculture. Later, he
would like to implement what he has studied by designing
sustainable community gardens.
Lindsey Felps is a student at Texas A&M with a double major in
Horticulture and Agronomy, and she loves what she is
studying. She is an active member of the Horticulture
Club, helped with the on-campus sustainable farm while it
was in production, as well as worked in the home garden
and flower beds of a family living near College Station.
In her spare time she takes care of the multiple potted
plants she has in her dorm room. The summer of 2011 found
Lindsey interning in Guatemala where she worked with
agricultural development and organics. "Working in the
field was wonderful and confirmed that I hope to continue
working in greenhouse or field work since it is what I
love learning about and doing," she says. |
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