Scholarships: Programs

Scholarships

Supporting Our Next Generation

Recognizing the expense our youth face in pursuing their dreams of continuing education, Dutchess County Sheep & Wool Growers Association is dedicated to making a lasting impact through our Scholarship program. We desire to support our youth by providing yearly scholarships to those seeking higher learning. Learn more about this opportunity, please click on the attached link for our application!

2025 APPLICATION-Deadline 5/15th

Scholarship Award agreement

2024 SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS:

Ashley Keck is 17 years old, a senior at Arlington High School in LaGrangeville and attends Dutchess BOCES CTI, taking the "Careers in Animal and Plant Sciences" class. She is a member and the current president of her FFA chapter at Dutchess BOCES.

Ashley has been raising beef cattle for over 10 years and showing cattle competitively in NY and around the country. Look for Ashley next August at the Dutchess County Fair Livestock Sale, where she will be selling beef steers. In the last three years, Ashley has had the opportunity to travel to Kentucky and Wisconsin showing her cattle. July of 2025 she will be attending a national show in Nebraska with her Hereford heifer.

Ashley plans on attending SUNY Cobleskill, working towards an Associate Degree in Animal Science, Beef and Livestock.

Kathryn Tibbetts is a senior at Franklin Delano Roosevelt High School and plans to attend Quinnipiac University, where she will double major in Biology and Psychology with a concentration in secondary education. She has been a dedicated year-round rower for four years with the FDR Varsity team and the Hudson River Rowing Association. Kathryn is an active 4H member, participating in two clubs, Spitters and Got Goat Milk, for a decade, where she has served as both President and Vice President. While she has shown dairy goats, Kathryn's true passion has been showing llamas and alpacas since age six, competing in both local fairs and national shows. Her goal is to pursue graduate studies in animal behavior, which she plans to integrate into her teaching career and future research.