COLORADO GARDEN SHOW HORTICULTURE SCHOLARSHIPS
May 15, 2007
Colorado Garden Show, Inc. (CGS) is proud to offer its scholarship programs, which provide financial aid to students attending a college or university in Colorado. For more than 20 years, CGS scholarship program has provided assistance for college students to reach their education goals in horticulture. In 2007, CGS will award $500,000 in scholarships and grants to support Colorado's horticulture industry.
CGS scholarships encourage study in Agriculture Education including:
- Horticulture (including Fruit Science/Environmental/ Communications)
- Floriculture
- Landscape Architecture or Design
- Botany
- Biology (as it applies to horticulture/agriculture sciences)
- Plant Pathology/Science
- Forestry
- Agronomy
- Environmental Concerns (including management: Environmental, Horticulture Resource/Environmental Behavior, etc.)
- Environmental Conservation
- City (Rural &Urban) Planning
- Community and Regional Planning
- Habitat or Forest/Systems Ecology
- Land Management
- and/or other related or allied subjects*
- One full-ride four-year scholarship for an incoming freshman to study horticulture (approximately $15,000 annually)
- One full tuition, books and fees scholarship for a graduate student (one year) (approximately 10,000 annually)
- One full tuition, books and fees scholarship for an undergraduate (one year) (approximately $4,000 annually)
- One $1,500 scholarship (one year)
- One Endowment Scholarship at CSU in the amount of $1,250 (one year)
- One $3,800 annual scholarship at Front Range Community College
- One Colorado Nursery Research and Education Foundation Scholarship ($4,000 total which includes $2,000 from each organization)
- One Colorado Floral Foundation Scholarship ($4,000 total which includes $2,000 from each organization)
- Two Front Range Community College scholarships ($1,000 each which includes $500 from each organization)
- One Northeaster Junior College Scholarship ($1,000 total which includes $500 from each organization)
Application deadline for all scholarships is March 15, 2008.
*Applicants must be majoring in one of these fields of study. Approval must be granted by the Colorado Garden Show Scholarship Committee for application to be made in any major other than the ones listed.
About Colorado Garden Show, Inc.
Colorado Garden Show, Inc. is a nonprofit corporation that provides funds for horticultural-related grants and scholarships and events for the benefit of the greater Denver area and the state of Colorado. To date, CGS, Inc. has awarded more than $2 million for horticultural projects and scholarships throughout the state. CGS, Inc. presents the annual Colorado Garden &Home Show at the Colorado Convention Center, which is the Rocky Mountain region's largest, oldest and most prestigious consumer garden and home improvement show west of the Mississippi.
