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Slinger FFA members secure grants from AmerisourceBergen Foundation and Neogen | By Katelyn Dei

January 3, 2023 – Slinger, WI – Two National FFA SAE grants have been awarded to Megan Mosgaller and Noah McMeeken of the Slinger FFA Chapter.

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 A $1,000 SAE grant has been awarded to Megan Mosgaller of Slinger, Wisconsin by AmerisourceBergen Foundation and a $1,000 SAE grant has been awarded to Noah McMeeken of Slinger, WI by Neogen.

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SAE grants are designed to help FFA members create or expand Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE) projects, a requirement that all FFA members must complete. An SAE requires FFA members to create and operate an agriculture related business, work at an agriculture-related business or conduct an agricultural research experience.

Upon completion, FFA members must submit a comprehensive report regarding their career development experience.

This year 30 different sponsors funded SAE Grants. A full list of sponsors can be found on the National FFA Organization website on the SAE Grants webpage.

Mosgaller is a member of the Slinger FFA Chapter and will be utilizing the grant to improve her dairy goat enterprise. McMeeken will be utilizing the grant to purchase a drone and start a farm technology enterprise. Their applications were selected from among 1,296 applications nationwide.

The National FFA Organization is a school-based national youth leadership development organization of more than 850,000 student members as part of 8,995 local FFA chapters in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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