Syngenta Honors Agricultural Scholarship Winners

Syngenta is proud to announce that students Sharon Perrone from the University of Minnesota and Abigail Arthaud from Oklahoma State University are the 2016 Syngenta Agricultural Scholarship national winners. A distinguished panel of judges selected the students from approximately 200 applicants who are pursuing ag-related degrees at land grant universities. All participants submitted essays about someone in their lives who inspired them to be #RootedinAg. That person for Perrone, the master’s level winner, was a teacher and mentor; for Arthaud, the bachelor’s level winner, it was her father, who runs their family farm.

“The advancement of agriculture is contingent on its future leaders. We’re happy to have found two students who have been inspired to pursue careers in the industry and to honor them and those who sparked their passion.”

“The advancement of agriculture is contingent on its future leaders,” says Mary Streett DeMers, senior communications lead at Syngenta. “We’re happy to have found two students who have been inspired to pursue careers in the industry and to honor them and those who sparked their passion.”

The winners received $1,000 each in regional awards and $6,000 each in national awards to assist them financially in realizing their educational and career goals. Syngenta awarded six additional students with $1,000 regional scholarship prizes. These recipients were Gilma Castillo (University of Florida), Leah Schwinn (The Ohio State University), Clara Ervin (Virginia Tech University), Jonathan Stephens (Pennsylvania State University), Eduardo Garcia (California State Polytechnic University) and Elizabeth Warren (Washington State University).

Find out more information about the national winners and our 2017 application period.