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Tompkins Co. Student Earns Empire State Potato Growers Scholarship
New York Ag Connection - 06/28/2016
Cassandra Proctor of Trumansburg, N.Y., has been named the 2016 Empire State Potato Growers Association Scholarship winner and will receive a $500 scholarship per academic year for up to four consecutive years of agricultural education at a college in
New York State.
Cassandra will graduate from Charles O. Dickerson High School in Trumansburg in June. She plans to begin her pursuit of a degree in plant sciences at Cornell University in the fall. Her career goal is to earn a PhD in plant genetics and to research ways to
improve plant yield and suitability for impoverished areas.
As a high school senior, she served as an FFA Co-Treasurer, and participated in the Tompkins-Seneca-Tioga New Visions in Life Sciences Program that allowed her to intern in the Boyce Thompson Institute plant genetics research lab at Cornell University.
Cassandra was selected to attend the Global Youth Institute hosted by the World Food Prize Foundation in Iowa in 2015. This summer Cassie will travel to the Phillipines on an eight-week Borlaug Ruan International Internship at the International Rice Research
Institute.
'The Empire State Potato Growers Association is pleased to recognize Cassandra Proctor for outstanding achievement and vision related to plant science and global food production needs,' said Empire State Potato Growers Association Scholarship Committee
Chairman Andrew Pryputniewicz.
The Empire State Potato Growers will recognize Cassandra Proctor as their 2016 scholarship winner at the Ag Leadership Luncheon at Empire Farm Days on Aug. 10 at Rodman Lott & Son Farms in Seneca Falls.
The Ag Leadership Luncheon program includes remarks from representatives with Farm Credit East, American Agriculturist magazine, and Empire Farm Days, and presentations of the New York State Agricultural Environmental Management Award, Empire
State Potato Growers Association Scholarship, and recognition of the Farm Credit East NY Scholarship recipients.
Experience Empire is the theme of the Aug. 9-11. Empire Farm Days that is the largest outdoor agricultural trade show in the Northeastern U.S. The event covers 300 acres with exhibits, field demonstrations, equipment, live animals, educational seminars, test
driving, and rural life and safety booths. Parking is $10 per vehicle. Learn more at www.empirefarmdays.com.
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