Dordt College Student Erin Davelaar Wins Ag Award

2012 Feb 29

The Dordt College Ag Club showed up in force at the Spring Iowa PAS (Post-Secondary Agriculture Students) Conference in Waterloo, Iowa, on February 2 and 3. Five Dordt teams placed within the top five in their categories and several students earned top individual honors.

Among those receiving high honors was Erin Davelaar of Brandon, South Dakota. Davelaar's College Bowl team took fourth place, her Dairy Specialist team took sixth place, and she qualified for the National PAS Conference and will represent Dordt College in the College Bowl and in the category of Dairy Specialist. Davelaar is a junior majoring in agriculture with an emphasis in animal science.

Dordt sent 18 students who competed in the College Bowl, Overall Livestock Specialty, Crop Specialty, Dairy Specialty, Equine Specialty, Agriculture Education, Agriculture Sales, and Employment Interview contests.

The Dordt Ag Club has been a member of the Iowa PAS for two years but participated for the first time this year. At the event, 321 students represented institutions in Iowa offering post-secondary degrees in agriculture.

Dordt College is one of only a handful of Christian colleges in North America to offer a four-year agriculture program. Over the past several years, all Dordt agriculture students have found positions within six months of graduating, most much sooner. Some enter careers not only in farming and technical service support but also in government, finance, and international development. Learn more at www.dordt.edu/agriculture.