Garden Center Symposium offering horticulture scholarship

Students studying horticulture or a related subject at at two or four-year institution in the Wisconsin/Illinois/Minnesota area will be eligible for a $1,000 unrestricted scholarship from the 2016 Garden Center Symposium.

According to a press release from the Garden Center Symposium, the deadline for application is Dec. 1, 2015. To be eligible, the applicant should be majoring or minoring in horticulture or a field applicable to a green industry with preference given to those with an interest in a career in the garden center industry. The application should have at least one quarter or semester remaining following spring term 2016 and have a minimum of a 3.0 grade point average on a 4.0 scale.

The Garden Center Symposium has sponsored its educational event/trade show for over fifty years. The Jan. 20-21, 2016 event will be held at the Country Springs Hotel and Conference Center in Waukesha, Wis.

Additional information regarding the scholarship and the 2016 program can be found at www.gardencentersymposium.com. Registration for the event will open later in the fall.