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Texas FFA Proficiency Scholarship
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About the Scholarship
Opens: 3/1/2024
Closes: 5/1/2024
Texas FFA Proficiency Scholarship recognizes and rewards, with college scholarships, FFA members in Texas who demonstrate outstanding performance in the Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE) program.
This program is open to members who either are current high school students or have graduated from high school within the past year.
High school graduates must have completed at least 3 full years of instruction in agricultural education.
Applicants must have participated in an SAE program either in a placement type or an entrepreneurship type.
Placement SAE programs involve work or experienceonly (paid or unpaid) activities, including directed laboratory, improvement, and research/experimentation experiences.
Entrepreneurship SAE programs involve ownership of an agricultural production or agribusiness enterprise.
Recently, a total of 45 award areas were offered, including agricultural communications, agricultural education, agricultural mechanics design and fabrication, agricultural mechanics repair and maintenanceentrepreneurship, agricultural mechanics repair and maintenance-placement, agricultural processing, agricultural sales-entrepreneurship, agricultural sales-placement, agricultural services, agriscience animal systems research, agriscience plant systems research, agriscience integrated systems research, beef production-entrepreneurship, beef production-placement, dairy production-entrepreneurship, dairy production-placement, diversified agricultural production, diversified crop production-entrepreneurship, diversified crop production-placement, diversified horticulture, diversified livestock production, environmental science and natural resources, equine science-entrepreneurship, equine science-placement, fiber and oil crop production, forage production, forest management and products, fruit production, goat production, grain production, landscape management, nursery operations, outdoor recreation, poultry production, service-learning sheep production, small animal production and care, specialty animal production, specialty crop production, swine production-entrepreneurship, swine production-placement, turfgrass management, vegetable production, veterinary science, and wildlife production and management.
Students are first judged at their chapter level on their SAE program, with winners advancing to the district level, then to the area level, and finally to the state level.
Selection is based on 1) skills and competencies learned that relate to an agricultural career field; 2) financial achievements, including growth in scope; 3) personal growth and development through FFA activities; 4) evidence of student accomplishments based on available resources and opportunities; and 5) communication skills, as demonstrated in the written portions of applications and clear concise answers during interviews.