Lauren Mohr of Carlock; Autumn Schlipf of Gridley; and Ojas Shah of Bloomington; were each selected to receive scholarships from the IAA Foundation for the 2024-25 academic year.
Lauren Mohr will receive the $1,000 Vincent O. Greene Memorial Scholarship, awarded to a student who demonstrates qualities of leadership and citizenship
Mohr is a graduate of Normal West High School and will be a Junior studying Animal Science at Iowa State University.
Autumn Schlipf will receive the $1,000 Dwain Ford Memorial Soybean Scholarship, established in memory of a long-time leader of the soybean industry.
Schlipf graduated from El Paso-Gridley High School and will be a Junior at Illinois State University studying Agribusiness.
Ojas Shah will receive the $3,001 Sandhu Minority in Agriculture Scholarship, established to help meet the demand for innovation and to foster an agriculture industry which more closely represents the world it feeds.
Shah is a Senior at Normal Community High School and plans to study Mechanical Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
This year, the IAA Foundation awarded $151,501 to 89 students pursuing degrees in agriculture-related fields. To learn more about the IAA Foundation and to see a complete list of the 2024-25 winners, visit iaafoundation.org.
