NC State has WON the championship title of the ASAS Foundation Folly!

Congratulations NC State for winning the AMAZING PRIZE:
~Bragging rights as the BEST SCHOOL to support graduate students and young animal scientists!
~NC State owns the “University/College Take Over Day” at the 2023 ASAS Annual Meeting!
~NC State’s color – RED – is the official 2023 ASAS Annual meeting color!/
~An ASAS logo polo shirt for NC State’s animal science faculty and graduate students!

On behalf of the ASAS Foundation, we hope you had fun with the Foundation Folly. You can take great pride knowing your generosity supported our “Students and Young Animal Scientists Opportunities Fund.” Together, we raised $12,225, reaching 82% of our $15,000 goal.

Throughout 2023, we will continue celebrating ASAS Foundation’s 25^th Anniversary with the “Fostering Innovators for the Future” campaign. The ASAS Foundation makes a difference in the lives of animal scientists at all stages of their careers, and it starts with our animal science students!

As part of ASAS Foundation's 25th Anniversary celebration and in the spirit of that well-known March basketball competition, let’s challenge each other to a friendly competition between our colleges and universities to raise funds to benefit the ASAS Foundation’s “Student and Young Animal Scientists Opportunities Fund.”

AMAZING PRIZE:

Bragging rights as being the BEST SCHOOL to support graduate students and young animal scientists!

Own the "University/College Takeover Day" at the 2023 ASAS Annual Meeting!

Your school color will be the official 2023 ASAS Annual meeting color!

Receive an ASAS logo-polo shirt for each of your school's animal science faculty and graduate students (up to 100 polo shirts)!

As part of ASAS Foundation's 25th Anniversary celebration and in the spirit of that well-known March basketball competition, let’s challenge each other to a friendly competition between our colleges' and universities' animal science departments/programs to raise funds to benefit the ASAS Foundation’s “Student and Young Animal Scientists Opportunities Fund.”

Throughout the past 25 years, the ASAS Foundation has provided:

20 graduate student awards,
20 student competitions,
25 Early Career Achievement Awards,
35 DC Interns, and
125 graduate student travel scholarships.

This has been made possible through charitable contributions from our members, corporate partners and friends of ASAS. Let continue fostering innovators for the future!!! Our goal is to raise $15,000 through the ASAS Foundation Folly to enhance and expand our support for students and young animal scientists.

Here’s how the competition it works:

*All schools are now entered. Contributions of any amount count towards your school advancing in a bracket.

First, a school must ENTER* the competition through a $20 minimum contribution to ASAS Foundation’s “Student and Young Animal Scientists Opportunities Fund.” A school may enter itself or be entered by a faculty, student, alumnus, friend or corporate partner.

Once a school is entered into the Foundation Folly, contributions* of any amount may be credited to a school.
(*All donors will be recognized on this site. If you prefer to be an anonymous donor while supporting your school, when setting up your contribution, the section immediately following the option for a personal message, be sure to check the box, "Hide My Name or Amount from Public View," you can select to hide one or both.)

And now the REAL competition begins! Just like in that well-known basketball competition, each college and university must win their bracket to continue advancing to the final Championship Round. There are five fundraising rounds, and with each new round, each college and university begins with a $0 credit and must rise to the challenge again to raise the most funds, over their opponent, for the “Student and Young Animal Scientists Opportunities Fund.”

Bracket Schedule:

Selection Sunday: March 12
Neighhhext Round (all Seeds): March 12-19

Sooie 16: March 20-26

Mooarvelous 8: March 27-30

Baahaa 4: March 31-April 4*
See Update Below

Championship (aka Bragging Rights) Round: April 5-9*

*Foundation Folly has changed! Baahaa 4 round will be the FINAL ROUND. Winning school will be announced on Wednesday, April 5th.

***AMAZING PRIZE!!!
In addition to bragging rights, the college or university that wins the Championship Round will receive ASAS-logoed polos for each of their animal science faculty and graduate students, in their school color (up to 100 polos). The winning college or university will have a designated University/College Take Over Day at the 2023 Annual Meeting! But wait, there’s more! The winning school’s color will be the official meeting color of the Annual Meeting.

Foundation Folly - A Fundraiser to Foster Innovators for the Future

By American Society of Animal Science Inc

Foundation Folly - A Fundraiser to Foster Innovators for the Future