2024 Scholarship Overall Winner
This year, twenty-one students have been awarded $42,500 for scholarships for the 2024-25 academic year. These students represent fourteen California counties.
Presented by Friends of the California State Fair
The Friends of the California State Fair Scholarship Program is a collaborative effort between the Friends of the California State Fair and the California Agricultural Advisory Council.
2025-2026 Scholarship Program
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The Ironstone Concours Foundation/Friends of the California State Fair provides $5,000 to be awarded to one outstanding candidate. In 2024, we recognize the recipient of the Ironstone Concours Foundation/ Friends of the California State Fair Scholarship Teagan Wunschel.
In Fall 2024, Teagan will be attending California State University, Chico to earn a degree in Animal Science and Ag Communications. As a fifth-generation rancher, Teagan’s agricultural journey started from a young age and continued into serving two terms as President of the Sutter Creek FFA, holding office as State President and State Queen of the California Nevada Junior Hereford Association, membership of the National Junior Hereford Association, membership of both the local and state Cattlemen’s Associations, and working as a student intern for the El Dorado County Farm Bureau.
Support for her community has also been an important value to Teagan. She has actively participated in community clean-up days, planned and hosted events to thank first responders, worked with her FFA Chapter to provide stockings for patients at Shriner’s Hospital during Christmas, assisted ranchers at local bull sales, presented at Amador and El Dorado Farm Days, and most recently raised a market lamb and donated the proceeds from the auction sale to the Child Life programs at hospitals where she was treated for Leukemia as a child.
Teagan’s future career aspirations include working in the beef industry, with a focus on genetics and sustainable cattle production, as well as being an advocate for agriculture in California and helping push for new and improved breeding that can produce a more sustainable product for consumers while also benefiting producers. Teagan plans to continue to be actively involved in trade organizations where she can be an “AG-vocate” for the beef industry, helping to spread the voices of producers, and promote the importance of agriculture to consumers, students and her community.
Congratulations, Teagan!
History of the Gala and Scholarship Program
The Friends of the California State Fair Scholarship Program was initiated in 1993 as a collaborative effort of the Friends of the California State Fair, the California Exposition & State Fair and the California State Fair Agricultural Advisory Council.
2019 Scholarship Winner Katherine Brafford
2019 Scholarship Winners
Each year, the Friends of the California State Fair Student Scholarships help our state’s most promising students achieve their goals and realize their dreams by granting scholarships to a broad range of academic studies.
They are presented to college students and graduating high school seniors who exhibit academic excellence, leadership potential, civic accomplishments, and a strong sense of personal commitment to continuing their education.
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