The National FFA organization awarded a $2,000 MetLife Foundation scholarship to Sydnie Peters of the Winner High School FFA.
Peters is a graduate of Winner High School. The scholarship is sponsored by MetLife Foundation as a special project of the national FFA Foundation. Peters plans to use the funds to pursue a degree at South Dakota State University.
This scholarship is one of 1,820 awarded through the national FFA organization’s scholarship program this year.
The 2016 scholarship recipients were selected from 8,383 applications from across the country. Selections were made based on the applicant’s leadership, academic record, FFA and other school and community activities, supervised agricultural work or work experience in agricultural education and future goals.