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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
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[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.
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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] |
