GACD Scholarship

To encourage study and careers in soil and water conservation-related fields, GACD administers one $1,000 scholarship each year.  The scholarship is 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 high school senior, or a freshman, sophomore, junior, senior or graduate student 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 in need of financial assistance.  There will be no discrimination on basis of race, sex, or religion.  An individual may not compete for a scholarship that he or she has won in past years.  The scholarship payments are disbursed according to the fund.

The GACD Scholarship winner is selected by the Scholarship Committee.   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.