JANUARY 8, 2020 – Delmarva Poultry Industry, Inc. has opened the application period for its 2020 College Scholarship Program. Applications are being accepted for undergraduate and graduate scholarships available in the amount of $1,500 or more.
Undergraduate applicants must be a Delmarva resident and a student in good standing at any accredited, degree-granting institution in the United States, or in the case of graduating high school seniors, accepted to an accredited, degree-granting institution within the United States. Individuals must have an academic major in a subject area relevant to Delmarva's chicken industry and be planning a career in a segment of this industry. An official transcript must accompany each application.
Graduate student applicants must meet the above criteria, with the exception of Delmarva residency. In addition, the individual must be engaged in research that could positively benefit Delmarva's chicken industry. DPI membership on the part of the applicant or his/her family is not required and has no effect on the selection process.
“Since 1985, we’ve awarded more than $144,000 to deserving, driven students through our scholarship program,” said Holly Porter, DPI’s executive director. “Many of them went on to careers in Delmarva’s chicken community and are contributing to our $3.4 billion chicken economy. We’re excited to offer opportunities to a new set of young people with this year’s scholarships.”
Applications must be completed and received at the following address on or before 4:30 p.m. on April 3, 2020: DPI College Scholarship Program, 16686 County Seat Highway, Georgetown, DE 19947-4881.
Application forms and additional scholarship information are available at dpichicken.org/scholarship or by emailing dpi@dpichicken.com.
Delmarva Poultry Industry, Inc. is the Delmarva chicken industry’s voice as the premier membership association focusing on advocacy, education and member relations. For more information, visit dpichicken.org; like DPI on Facebook; and follow us on Twitter. |
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3 comments:
That's good. But be ready for alot of pressure in the chicken industry.
I interviewed for one of Purdue's "management" careers at a job recruiting day at SSU during my senior year. I found out all I needed to know about what they call a entry level management career in the poultry industry. Start out as a supervisor on a slaughterhouse line, at a salaried job for 60 hours per week. Worked out to be a minimum wage job, with no guaranteed of long term employment. BTW, I was not a naive 21-22 year old student that thought it would be a great first job. I was in my early thirties and immediately realized that the poultry industry was preying on young graduates. I told the recruiter he was wasting my time, and I was wasting his. Got up and terminated the interview. No regrets.
Big industry on the peninsula, but it is a high volume killing operation. No ifs, ands or buts. You better like the smell of a slaughterhouse before you get involved. Like the septic pumping business, it is the smell of money on the Eastern Shore. The business is what it is. There's no sugar coating it.
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