2022 Scholarship Winner:Â Jay Wagner
$5000 Agricultural Sciences Award
The Demetrios Agathangelides Memorial Scholarship
True Leaf Market is proud to support the agricultural sciences. Starting in 2022, we will offer one $5000 scholarship to a college student involved in the agricultural sciences. We encourage students in both graduate and undergraduate programs to apply for this scholarship, which will allow them to showcase the skills and knowledge they’ve learned in their agriculture-related field. We want applicants to demonstrate their knowledge with confidence while fulfilling the requirements for this scholarship. Overall, our aim is to encourage students to exercise what they have learned while bettering the world around them. We offer scholarships to students in these plant science related disciplines:
- Horticulture
- Botany
- Agriculture
- Landscape Architecture
- All Other Plant Science related disciplines
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About the Scholarship
Demetrios (Demo) Agathangelides founded one of True Leaf Market's original brands, Mountain Valley Seeds, back in 1974. Demo sadly passed away in September of 2022, and we will miss him dearly. This scholarship is in his honor and loving memory. If you would like to make a contribution to the scholarship fund to honor his legacy, please send an email to bolsen@trueleafmarket.com for details.
How to Apply
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Write an Essay on a Topic Related to the Plant Sciences
- Complete the online application
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Choose a topic from this list:See the Topics List >>
- Complete your Essay: a 1-2 page write-up (500-1000 words) of your chosen topic. Please keep under three pages in length (1500 words).
- Upload your completed document with your application below, or email it to scholarships@trueleafmarket.com (Note: please do not send your plant bio in a zip file, as anything received in a zipped folder will be deleted.)
See Examples from Previous Winners Here
What we are looking for:
- Research - Your information is correct and thorough concerning your particular plant variety. (This is a challenge to test your ability to gather knowledge of a particular plant variety and your skill to teach what you've learned in a simple and understandable way.)
- Clean Presentation - Even somebody with little to no knowledge of plants should be able to understand your paper or video.
- Completeness - Your paper should have a beginning, middle, and end, exuding confidence about what you may be explaining.
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Our goal with this scholarship is to help those that have a desire to spread their passion of the growing sciences to those around them. We hope that during these exercises, the applicant will think of those that might be reading or watching these projects and bring to them the excitement and intrigue they feel about cultivating life.
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Terms & Conditions
Eligibility
We accept applications from students pursuing a degree in a plant science related discipline who are at least high school graduates enrolled in a college, trade school, or university in the United States of America. Each applicant must meet requirements mentioned above to qualify.
Deadline
Deadline for all submissions is July 31, 2022 11:59 p.m. Pacific Standard Time. Any applications received after July 31st will not be considered for the scholarship. Awards will be announced by August 31st.
All terms and conditions are subject to change by True Leaf Market.
Ownership
All application material submitted to TrueLeafMarket.com is then considered property of True Leaf Market, LLC. We reserve the right to use material sent to us to show as examples to other applicants, display on our website(s), and edit for grammatical, syntactical, or typographical errors for clarity.
Past Winners
| Kaitlin Miller | Pesticide Alternatives | 2016 | Washington State University |
| Angelina Bernardini | About Cucumbers | 2016 | Tennessee State University |
| Jerome Small | The Environmental Revolution | 2017 | Florida Atlantic University |
| Zoe Martin Cohen | The Three Sister of the Santa Cruz Valley | 2017 | Arizona State University |
| Nestia N. Nuanez | Transplanting Snapdragons | 2018 | Aims Community College |
| Laura Thoeming | Onion Infographic | 2018 | Iowa State University |
| Julia Maddock | The Star of Summer Squash | 2019 | Kansas State University |
| Ronald J. Smith | Lettuce Essay | 2019 | Purdue University |
| Srijana Dura | Soil-Borne Pathogens | 2021 | New Mexico State University |
| Emely Mendoza | What Are Hydroponics? | 2021 | Delaware Technical Community College |
| Jay Wagner | The Diversity of Corn | 2022 | The Evergreen State College |
About the Scholarship
Demetrios (Demo) Agathangelides founded one of True Leaf Market's original brands, Mountain Valley Seeds, back in 1974. Demo sadly passed away in September of 2022, and we will miss him dearly. This scholarship is in his honor and loving memory. If you would like to make a contribution to the scholarship fund in Demo's name, please send an email to bolsen@trueleafmarket.com for details.