Commercial Horticulture Scholarship Proposal

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Hi, I’m Maria Pendleton and currently, I am in the middle of my fall semester of my first year at DMACC. I am enrolled in the Commercial Horticulture program in Ankeny. I plan to continue on to receive my Horticulture AAS degree in Plant Production. I am really enjoying the program because it is expanding my knowledge and challenging me at the same time. After I graduate, I plan on working back near my hometown in southwest Iowa and work as a manager in a greenhouse or nursery. For volunteer work, during the year, I volunteer back at my local church at their annual breakfasts by helping with serving. Last year, I made meals at the World Food Prize that went back to help feed people in Tanzania. I would benefit from this scholarship because not only would it help with the cost of my tuition, but the support will also help lessen my worries about my finances. This scholarship will help my parents as well since they are helping me with my college education. During the past two months and currently, my dad has been in the hospital due to having pancreatitis. In August when he was introduced with it, he went into septic shock and that day he had coded seven times. It is a miracle that he is with my family still, and with the support of this scholarship, it would help out a lot due to the medical bills that my family has. As in the past, I will work …show more content…

Both of my parents went to college and received a college degree. Personally, I believe it is valuable to have a college degree because a college degree sets you apart from other people with a lesser degree, if any. I wanted to get a degree in Horticulture because I feel that it will advance me in job opportunities because I will have better knowledge in the field of Horticulture. With a college degree, I will be more familiar with terms, plant identification, and propagation of plants than without a

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