Yamaha Motor Corp., U.S.A., is now accepting applications for its second annual scholarship program that provides financial assistance to members of the National Agricultural Communicators of Tomorrow (ACT).  ACT is a national college student association with 354 members located on 17 college and university campuses across the country.  ACT’s mission of fostering professional development is at the core of the Yamaha-ACT Scholarship Program.

The Yamaha-ACT Scholarship Program is broken out into two individual student scholarships and one chapter scholarship.  All three scholarships are aimed at helping students attend the annual Agricultural Media Summit (AMS), a professional development and networking opportunity.

To view the entire press release, click here.

For the individual and chapter application, click here.

For the ATV safety recommendations, click here.

The Animal Ag Alliance is launching a program called “College Aggies Online” and is a contest for college students involved in ag clubs across the country. Students create personal accounts on our Web site and upload ag-related photos, blogs, videos, etc to share their story of agriculture. We are very excited about the opportunity to help young people speak out about ag online and think this would be a great experience for future ag communicators such as yourself and your members!  There are sponsorship opportunities, too, if you think that would be something you would be interested in!

Here’s a link to program materials: http://animalagalliance.org/current/home.cfm?Category=College_Aggies&Section=Main

A past newsletter about the program: http://eepurl.com/dNiT

This is the log-in to the CAO network, where students create their account: http://aggiesonline.ning.com

The Progressive Dairy Publishing has a great opportunity for future communicators to write for a bigger audience than just a classroom. We have a young woman from Ohio doing just that now http://proudtodairy.ning.com/profiles/blogs/member-feature-october-the and there are other ways that students can be involved. If there are other ACT members that want to blog on our website, please contact:
Ryan Curtis
Progressive Dairy Publishing
Assistant Editor
(800) 320-1424
(208) 948-5660
ryan@progressivedairy.com