In 2015, SIP Certified and Vineyard Team awarded $10,000 in educational scholarships with funds raised at Earth Day Food & Wine. We are ready to do that again and need your help! By becoming a Silver ($250), Gold ($500), or Platinum ($1,000) Scholarship Sponsor you are giving back to the people who make our industry possible. 100% of your Scholarship Sponsor dollars go directly toward the scholarship.
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“After 7th grade, my summers consisted of being in the hot summer heat working from six in the morning to three in the afternoon…I have my eye set on Engineering and would love to be an innovator designing mechanisms to help ag workers have an easier time harvesting…I plan to be the first one in my family to attend a four-year university.” —2016 Scholarship Recipient
“I was told no one from my town does big things and everyone eventually ends up in the fields. In my eyes, my town is only one small seed in an entire field and I am the produce competing for the first quality harvest…There may be people who attempt to limit me, but I do not fall for their tactics. Instead, I use them to fuel me toward my vision of success.” —2016 Scholarship Recipient
“At a young age, I recall being a translator during my parents’ doctor appointments and I still carry this role which prevents doctor-patient interaction and results in incomplete diagnostic. I hope to return to my hometown and serve as a primary care physician engaged in my community.” —2016 Scholarship Recipient
“After I graduated high school, I had no idea what I wanted to do. I grew up in a household of two very loving and hardworking parents that wanted nothing by the best for me, especially since I am the oldest of four children. They wanted me to have a life different than their’s, a life without backbreaking labor and long hours. I couldn’t let all the hard work my parents went through go to waste by not going to college. I owed it to them and myself.” —2016 Scholarship Recipient
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