Louisville Agricultural Club Scholarships

Scholarship awards are only for high school seniors who are residents of Bullitt, Henry, Jefferson, Oldham, Shelby, Spencer, and Trimble counties in Kentucky and Clark, Floyd, and Harrison counties in Indiana.

Scholarships will be awarded to high school seniors who enroll in agricultural or agricultural-related curricula (courses of study that provide training directly related to the production or processing of agricultural goods, or for the provision of services to producers/processors of agricultural goods) at agricultural colleges or universities only in Kentucky or Indiana.

Scholarships will be awarded on the basis of scholastic achievement, financial need, leadership, extra-curricular activities, character and citizenship.

The Louisville Agricultural Club will award three college scholarships for the current school year.  The scholarships awarded are as follows:

• Kamin Family Scholarship

• Corley Brown Memorial Scholarship

• Charles Keen Memorial Scholarship. 

All three are for $4,000 each, $1,000 each year over four years.   

Scholarships can be applied to school-related expenses such as tuition, room, board, books, fees, supplies, etc.   Payments are made directly to the student annually after grades are verified. 

RECIPIENTS OF THE AWARDS MUST REMAIN IN AN AG OR AG RELATED MAJOR TO CONTINUE RECEIVING FUNDS AS A FULL TIME STUDENT.  Recipients will submit their updated college transcript after every Spring Semester to continue to receive the next year’s scholarship.

All application materials must be uploaded to the online application by April 1, 2025. If you have any questions, email Bryce Roberts at bryce.roberts@uky.edu or call him at 502-477-2217.

Information and Documents Needed for the Online Application

1. Pages 2, 3, and 4 of this completed application.  YOU WILL NEED ALL OF THE INFORMATION ON THESE PAGES FOR THE ONLINE APPLICATION.  DO NOT SEND THE PAPER APPLICATION!!  USE THE ONLINE APPLICATION. This information includes:

   • Work Experience

   • School Activities and Leadership

   • Non-School Activities and Leadership

   • Awards and Recognition

2. The 2024-2025 Confirmation Page of your FAFSA application for federal student aid showing your EFC score. 

3. A transcript of all your high school grades and evidence of your ACT score and SAT score (if taken).

4. The grading scale for your high school and a copy of your second semester senior schedule.

5. Two letters of recommendation describing characteristics such as leadership, citizenship, self-motivation, self-discipline, potential, etc.  (One from a school official such as a teacher, counselor, or principal; and one from a non-relative who knows you well).

6. An essay, in 400 words or less, addressing EITHER of the following questions: “What is a current challenge to Agriculture and how will your chosen career path help this challenge?” or “Connect your own extracurricular activities, work experience, and course work, and how they will prepare you for an agriculture-related career.”  (Address EITHER topic, not to exceed 400 words total).  For either question, please address:  “Do you see yourself in an agricultural related field in 10 years?”

In the online application, you will need to upload several documents.  They will need to be named in the following format:  Lastname_document.  All of the documents will be listed below and how they should be named.

• Work Experience - Lastname_Work

• School Activities and Leadership - Lastname_SchoolActivities

• Non School Activities and Leadership - Lastname_NonSchoolActivities

• Awards and Recognition - Lastname_Awards

• Letter of Recommendation 1 - Lastname_Recommendation1

• Letter of Recommendation 2 - Lastname_Recommendation2

• High School Transcript and Spring Semester Classes -Lastname_Transcript

• Grading Scale - Lastname_Scale

• FAFSA Confirmation Page - Lastname_FAFSA

• Essay - Lastname_Essay

For example, if your last name is Smith, the file should be named:  Smith_SchoolActivities 

Preferable file upload format is PDF, but other formats (such as Microsoft Word) are acceptable. 

All information on the following pages will be put into the online application.   

PLEASE NOTE:  ON THE FIRST PAGE OF THE ONLINE APPLICATION, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO DOWNLOAD THE TEMPLATE FILES FOR WORK EXPERIENCE, SCHOOL ACTIVITIES AND LEADERSHIP, NON-SCHOOL ACTIVITIES AND LEADERSHIP, AND AWARDS AND RECOGNITION.  DOWNLOAD THEM BEFORE STARTING THE APPLICATION.

DO NOT START THE APPLICATION UNTIL YOU HAVE ALL OF YOUR DOCUMENTS READY TO BE UPLOADED.  YOU HAVE 30 DAYS FROM THE TIME YOU START THE APPLICATION TO COMPLETE IT WITHOUT HAVING TO START OVER.

Applications that are incomplete or missing documentation may result in disqualification, and the application will not be judged.  

Scholarship History

Howard Kamin started the Scholarship Fund in 1983 with $300, believing that the Ag Club needed to be more than just a luncheon club. He discussed it with other members and went to the Bank of Louisville to start the endowment. It took five years to accumulate enough to award the first scholarship. Along with the initial checking account, the club decided to invest some of the funds into a Morgan Stanley account, which currently has approximately $170,000 in it. The club has previously done several fundraising projects, including silent auctions and working at both PGA Championships. Currently, many members are the “voice” of Freddy Farm Bureau and Kentucky Agriculture with financial assistance from the Kentucky Farm Bureau, which is greatly appreciated.

The scholarships are meant to provide some financial assistance to those students who are enrolled in an agricultural college with a major in an agricultural field.

Through the years, the scholarships have grown from just one scholarship of a few hundred dollars to where we now have 3 $4,000 scholarships each year. Since 2015, over $140,000 has been given out, and it is estimated that since the scholarship’s inception, over $300,000 has been given out to approximately 100 deserving students.

Howard Kamin’s dedication and perseverance have made the scholarship fund a tremendous success for the Ag Club and the community we serve.