Every year it seems to become a tougher competition than the last for our “Wildlife, Ecology, and Environmental” scholarships! Which makes us very happy to know we are making a positive difference in the winners’ lives.
 
ALL of the students who applied should be immensely proud of their responses to the essay questions on the application. We want to thank them for taking the time to be thoughtful and creative and we wish every one of them the best of success in their lives!
 
It truly was a hard choice, but we finally settled on the following three students:
 
Janna Quick of Cowanesque Valley High School
Sara Kennedy of North Penn-Mansfield High School
Jackson S. Brion of North Penn-Liberty High School
 
Congratulations to each of them!
 
These students have great plans for their futures, including veterinary and biomedical sciences, animal science, and forest ecosystem management. Their essays touched upon the need for deer population control to maintain balanced ecosystems, the impact of agriculture on our local waterways, and the damage done by gypsy moths (spongy moths) in Pennsylvania and especially here in our area.
 
All three kids plan to further their education at Pennsylvania State University. They each have insightful and viable ideas on what they can do personally to improve/mitigate some of the environmental issues our local area is experiencing. We hope their endeavors meet with great success for our extraordinarily beautiful environment, which we all enjoy and appreciate so much.
 
We here at the PAGCSC are proud to be able to give these students a boost toward their future careers. And we thank Seneca Resources for partnering with us to make these scholarships help even more!
 
Be on the lookout over the next few weeks for more about these students in the Wellsboro Gazette, our Facebook page, and on this webpage. Again, we’d like to congratulate Janna, Sara, and Jackson!