World Food Prize

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World Food Prize Nebraska Youth Institute

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Nebraska Opportunities

Learn more about how to get involved - including dates for the Nebraska Youth Institute, Global Challenge Paper writing guidelines, and links to register! 

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Earn a $500 CASNR scholarship each year you submit a paper and attend the event!

High School freshmen through seniors are eligible.

Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.

Dr. Norman E. Borlaug

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Participating students are eligible to apply for the $2,000 Maunder-Borlaug Food Security Scholarship toward tuition in the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources (CASNR) at UNL.

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The top high school students from each Youth Institute will be competitively selected as delegates to the Global Youth Institute, held every October in Des Moines, Iowa.

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Borlaug Ruan International Internship and USDA Wallace-Carver Fellowship opportunities are available for students that have participated in the Nebraska Youth Institute.

Questions?

Contact Morgan Tranmer

Nebraska Youth Institute State Coordinator

mtranmer2@unl.edu ⎮ 402-472-9782

 

More information can also be found at worldfoodprize.org/Nebraska.

Our Sponsors

The Nebraska Youth Institute is made possible with the generous support of the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources (CASNR); the Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communication (ALEC); the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources (IANR), Bruce and Kathy Maunder with the Maunder-Borlaug scholarship, The Malaika Foundation, the Nebraska Department of Education (NDE) and Nebraska FFA.

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