2002 Outstanding Senior Award
This award is sponsored by the Ag Alumni Society with the Coaly Agricultural Student Honor Society's involvement in the recruitment and selection process. Selection for this prestigious award is based on nominees' academic achievement, their leadership in college clubs and organizations, an application essay, a personal interview with the selection committee, and an evaluation of their contributions to the University and community.
Heather Schaetzle
A graduate of Conrad Weiser Area High School, Schaetzle is majoring in agricultural and biological engineering with a minor in environmental engineering and will graduate in December 2002. She is also a member of Penn State's Schreyer Honors College, Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society, Alpha Epsilon gricultural engineering honor society, Gamma Sigma Delta agricultural honor society, Mortar Board senior honor society, the Coaly Agricultural Honor Society, and the National Society of Collegiate Scholars.
As an undergraduate, Schaetzle served as an Ag Advocate, representing Penn State and the college at events such as Ag Progress Days, the Pennsylvania Farm Show, and Parents Weekend.
She also served as a teaching intern for the college's agricultural and biological engineering department. She is a past president of Penn State's student branch of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers, serves on the Agricultural Student Council, and is a member of Habitat for Humanity. She also is a deacon and reader at the Zion Lutheran Church in Womelsdorf.
She was an engineering student-trainee with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service in Lebanon, Pa., and a laboratory assistant for the USDA Agricultural Research Service's Pasture Systems and Watershed Research Laboratory based at Penn State. She was also an engineering, scientific, and technical intern for the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection in Conshohocken, Pa.
