Lincoln Community High School student receives scholarship in national ASABE High School Multimedia Competition

How our lives would be different today if not for the last century of advances in agricultural, food and biological systems engineering          Send a link to a friend

[July 19, 2007]  ST. JOSEPH, Mich. -- Aubrey Koehler, a junior from St. Joseph's Academy in St. Louis, Mo., took first-place honors in the first High School Multimedia Competition sponsored by the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers. She won a $5,000 scholarship for her presentation June 18 during ASABE's annual international meeting and 100th anniversary celebration in Minneapolis. Brian Buss, a freshman from Southeastern High School in Augusta, Ill., was awarded $3,000, and David Fulton, a freshman from Lincoln Community High School, Lincoln, Ill., received $1,500. The topic for the national competition: How our lives would be different today if not for the last century of advances in agricultural, food and biological systems engineering.

Koehler, Buss and Fulton were narrowed from a field of 30 entries from across the nation, with additional prizes awarded at the state and district levels.

"I entered the competition as part of a genetics class," said Koehler. "Until I started researching for the presentation, I had no idea how many advances have taken place in the area of plant genetics and the ways we grow our food."

Koehler's winning entry included a PowerPoint presentation and brochure that used photographs to highlight some of the many agricultural and biological engineering achievements.

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The High School Multimedia Competition event is one of several that mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of ASABE, an international educational and scientific organization dedicated to sustainable development, production and use of agricultural and biologically based products. A unique understanding of engineering principles and the biological world enables its members to lead the way in the use of renewable resources. ASABE and its members are on the cutting edge of sustainable solutions for the future. The society, headquartered in St Joseph, Mich., comprises 9,000 members representing more than 100 countries.

For additional information about ASABE and its calendar of 100th anniversary events, contact Dolores Landeck at 269-428-6339 or landeck@asabe.org or visit asabe.org.

[Text from file received from the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers]

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