Scholarships:  GACDS, GACDS Auxiliary, and Thompson Family

 

Central Georgia Supervisor, Paul English (left) presents the 2012 GACDS Scholarship to Charles Blake McCranie (right)To encourage study and careers in soil and water conservation related fields, GACDS administers three $1,000 scholarships each year.  The scholarships are given to students majoring in, or intending to major in, a soil and water conservation related area.  Acceptable areas of study include, but are not limited to, agricultural education, agronomy, horticulture, plant pathology, and agricultural communications.

The applicant may be a graduate student, senior, junior, sophomore or freshman from Georgia at any accredited college, school, or university in the United States.  Applicants in their first semester of college should send their high school transcript and proof of college enrollment.  Students must maintain a GPA of at least 2.75 and be financially needy.  There will be no discrimination on basis of race, sex, or religion.  A candidate may submit one application to be reviewed for all three scholarships, but he/she can only receive one of the three awards per year.  An individual may not compete for a scholarship that he or she has won in past years.  However, he or she may compete for the other scholarships.  The scholarship payments are disbursed according to the fund:

  • Tim Thompson (left) and Garland Thompson (right) present the 2012 Thompson Family Scholarship to Katie Elizabeth Comer (center)The GACDS Scholarship winner is selected by the Scholarship Committee.  The awardee is recognized at the GACDS Annual Meeting in January.  Disbursements will be made in two payments of $500.00 paid to the student upon receipt of proof of satisfactory completion of each of two semesters of full-time academic work.

  • The Garland and Anita Thompson Family Scholarship was established in 2009 in memory of Mrs. Anita Thompson.  The Thompson Family selects the awardee.  One payment of $1000 is presented to the scholarship recipient at the GACDS Annual Meeting in January. 
  • The GACDS Auxiliary Scholarship winner is selected by the Auxiliary Scholarship Committee.   The funds are disbursed in two installments of $500 upon satisfactory completion of each of the two semesters of full-time academic work.  The scholarship winner is recognized at the GACDS Annual Meeting in January.

 

Connie Garrison (right) presents the 2012 Auxiliary Scholarship to Jaimie Varnedore (left)Applications should be sent to:  GACDS, P.O. Box 111, Athens, GA 30603, or info@gacds.org on or before October 15th each year.  To review the application in preparation for the 2013 awards, please download the guidelines and application.