The National FFA Organization has awarded a $2,000 John Deere Dealer scholarship to Shelby Dodds of the Greenfield McClain High School FFA. The scholarship is sponsored by Five Points Implement Co., Inc. as a special project of the National FFA Foundation.

Dodds plans to use the funds to pursue a degree at Wilmington College.

This scholarship is one of 2,156 awarded through the National FFA Organization’s scholarship program this year. Currently, 127 sponsors contribute more than $2.7 million to support scholarships for students.

For 31 years, scholarships have been made available through funding secured by the National FFA Foundation. This generous funding comes from individuals, businesses and corporate sponsors to encourage excellence and enable students to pursue their educational goals.

The 2015 scholarship recipients were selected from 7,171 applicants from across the country. Selections were based on the applicant’s leadership, academic record, FFA and other school and community activities, supervised agricultural or work experience in agricultural education and future goals.

The National FFA Organization provides leadership, personal growth and career success training through agricultural education to 610, 240 student members who belong to one of 7,665 local FFA chapters throughout the U.S., Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

Submitted by the National FFA Organization.