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Scholarships

DCMGA Offers Three Scholarships for Delaware County Residents

January 2025

The Delaware County Master Gardener Association announces three $2,500 scholarships for Delaware County residents pursuing post-secondary education in agriculture, botany, food science, horticulture, environmental science, or a related field at an accredited college, university, or technical school in the United States.

Applications for the 2025-2026 scholarships can be obtained through the Delaware Community Foundation at https://delcf.org/scholarships/ and must be submitted by February 28, 2025.

Complete eligibility requirements, and additional information can be found at:

https://www.delawarecf.org/scholarships/delaware-county-master-gardener-association-scholarship/(https://www.delawarecf.org/scholarships/delaware-county-master-gardener-association-scholarship/

Past Recipients

2025

The Scholarship Committee has completed another successful year, selecting three outstanding students to support in their academic endeavors for the 2025-26 school year. There were a total of 23 applicants, with most deserving serious consideration. Our awardees are:

Rylea Gist will be a junior at The Ohio State University, majoring in Botany and minoring in Chemistry
Avery Bouwman will return as a junior at The Ohio State University, majoring in Plant Pathology and minoring in Forestry
Isabelle Lazar, a recent graduate of Delaware Hayes High School who will be entering The Ohio State University's Agricultural Technical institute In Wooster, will major in Agrisceince Education

We would like to give a huge thanks to our wonderful non-master gardener selection committee volunteers, Trisha Kalmar and Susan Miller.

2024

Mason Reid, Olentangy Orange High School, pursuing his masters degree in ecotoxicology and environmental chemistry at the Ohio State University
Rylea Gist, Delaware Hayes High School, studying botany and environmental science at Ohio Weslyan

2023

Shannon Barr, Olentangy Orange High School, studying botany and pre-med at Ohio Wesleyan
Hannah Plank, DACC graduate, studying food science and dietetics at Bowling Green State University

2022

Corinne Hazel, Olentangy Orange High School, studying environmental science at West Virginia University
Braelyn Eckard, Olentangy Berlin HIgh School, studying agricultural communications at The Ohio State University

2021

Brynn McGrail
Rena Ouyang
Elizabeth White (Jack Strader Scholarship)

2019

Josiah Bale of Lewis Center, studying Greenhouse and Nursery Management
Ella Nichols of Powell, studying Environmental and Agricultural Engineering

Master Gardener of the Year Honorees

From 2016 to 2022, the DCMGA scholarship was given in honor of that year's DCMGA Master Gardener of the Year. Those honorees include:

2016 • Nora Hiland

2017 • Susan Liechty

2018 • Charles Glass

2019 • Nancy Reynolds

2020 • Terri Litchfield

2021 • Charlotte Niceswanger

2022 • John Heinz

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