{"id":1753,"date":"2025-07-29T08:56:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T12:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/enstopportunities\/?p=1753"},"modified":"2025-07-29T08:58:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T12:58:26","slug":"keystone-chapter-of-the-soil-and-water-conservation-society-undergraduate-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/enstopportunities\/2025\/07\/29\/keystone-chapter-of-the-soil-and-water-conservation-society-undergraduate-scholarships\/","title":{"rendered":"Keystone Chapter of the Soil and Water Conservation Society Undergraduate Scholarships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">ANNOUNCEMENT FOR KEYSTONE\u00a0SWCS CHAPTER SCHOLARSHIPS\u20142025<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Keystone Chapter of the Soil and Water Conservation Society is offering two $500 scholarships to college undergraduate students in the fields of agriculture, environmental studies, soils, or natural resources, who are currently attending college in Pennsylvania. \u00a0Applicants should have sophomore, junior, or senior status. Applications can be sent in\u00a0<b>ONE<\/b>\u00a0of two ways:\u00a0 mailed applications must be\u00a0<b>postmarked\u00a0<\/b>by\u00a0<b>September 1, 2025<\/b>\u00a0to Mrs. Mary Smith\u00a0<b>OR emailed<\/b>\u00a0<b>as<\/b>\u00a0<b>attachments<\/b>\u00a0no later than\u00a0<b>5 pm, September 5, 2025, to Mrs. Mary Smith at\u00a0<\/b><b><u><a id=\"OWAca5eda75-f45c-2931-bf25-52217fd0cd38\" title=\"mailto:soillady0504@gmail.com\" href=\"mailto:soillady0504@gmail.com\" data-linkindex=\"1\">soillady0504@gmail.com<\/a><\/u><\/b><b>.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Application Deadlines: EITHER postmarked by September 1, 2025, or sent by email no later than 5 pm, September 5, 2025.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Complete application includes form, essay, and current transcript. Please send either official transcripts, photocopies of official transcripts, or scanned photocopies of official transcripts in attachments. **Incomplete application and those without transcripts will not be considered.<\/p>\n<p><b>Mail all documents by Sept. 1 to:<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 OR \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<b>Email all documents as attachments by Sept. 5 to:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Keystone SWCS Scholarship Chair\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<u><a id=\"OWAeebde318-a97c-c101-0e56-2484424053f9\" title=\"mailto:soillady0504@gmail.com\" href=\"mailto:soillady0504@gmail.com\" data-linkindex=\"2\">soillady0504@gmail.com<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Mary L. Smith<\/p>\n<p>4177 E. Main St.<\/p>\n<p>Belleville, PA 17004<\/p>\n<p>Scholarships will be awarded on the basis of a combination of academic merit and program of study, quality of the student\u2019s essay and application, financial need, and educational and career goals that are consistent with the SWCS mission. \u00a0The SWCS strives to foster the science and art of natural resource conservation. \u00a0Our work targets conservation of soil, water, and related natural resources on working land\u2014 land which is used to produce food and fiber. SWCS also promotes other services that improve the quality of life people experience in rural and urban communities. \u00a0We work to discover, develop, implement, and improve ways to use land that sustains its productive capacity and enhances the environment. \u00a0The cash award scholarships will be awarded in June of each year. \u00a0Successful applicants will be notified by email soon after the committee has arrived at a decision. \u00a0We request that winners of previous years not apply a second time. \u00a0<u><a id=\"OWA366e3b48-b342-5973-4c3f-95f7038e8d47\" title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/www.keystoneswcs.org\/_files\/ugd\/4cff27_04e3c3635a29479685dd5b8b89bb96f5.pdf. Click or tap if you trust this link.\" href=\"https:\/\/nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.keystoneswcs.org%2F_files%2Fugd%2F4cff27_04e3c3635a29479685dd5b8b89bb96f5.pdf&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cburkee%40dickinson.edu%7C8513f05d66f140ce12a208ddce086d4e%7C6232b05576b94c139b88b562ae7db6fb%7C0%7C0%7C638893257941554944%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=nJbNHDq8A4X6PnbBEFhygS9oNXa8uyVaTLxogZxgomw%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"3\">\u00a0\u00a0Apply here<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n<p>If you have questions, contact: Mary L Smith at 717-994-1941or email\u00a0<u><a id=\"OWA45468d55-a0f9-53a3-4d61-c3fad377b5f6\" title=\"mailto:soillady0504@gmail.com\" href=\"mailto:soillady0504@gmail.com\" data-linkindex=\"4\">soillady0504@gmail.com<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong>Application: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/enstopportunities\/2025\/07\/29\/keystone-chapter-of-the-soil-and-water-conservation-society-undergraduate-scholarships\/keystone-chapter-swcs-2025-scholarship-application\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1754\">Keystone Chapter SWCS 2025 Scholarship Application<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANNOUNCEMENT FOR KEYSTONE\u00a0SWCS CHAPTER SCHOLARSHIPS\u20142025 The Keystone Chapter of the Soil and Water Conservation Society is offering two $500 scholarships to college undergraduate students in the fields of agriculture, environmental&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/enstopportunities\/2025\/07\/29\/keystone-chapter-of-the-soil-and-water-conservation-society-undergraduate-scholarships\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4920,"featured_media":1758,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[124988],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environmental-studies-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/enstopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/enstopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/enstopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/enstopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4920"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/enstopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1753"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/enstopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1757,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/enstopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753\/revisions\/1757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/enstopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/enstopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/enstopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/enstopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}