The Colorado FFA Foundation and the Cordes Family are pleased to announce that Jackson Filla from Akron, Colorado, will receive the Edward B. Cordes Scholarship. Filla will receive full tuition, allowances for books and fees, as well as a partial living stipend.
Through an application process, Jackson was named a finalist and after a virtual interview with members of the Cordes Family and the FFA Foundation Scholarship Committee was named the 2023 winner.
“Active in FFA, sports, scouts, and community service, along with his outgoing personality, Jackson was a very strong candidate. I know Ed would have really liked Jackson”, said Polly Jessen, committee chair.
In January of 2020 Edward B. Cordes, his wife Polly Jessen, son Matt Cordes and daughter Katie Cordes established the Edward B. Cordes Scholar Program to be administered by the Colorado FFA Foundation.
The program created a scholarship fund which provides full tuition scholarships to Colorado FFA members who attend college or trade schools in Colorado. The fund will provide scholarships to students until at least 2050. Ed passed away in March of 2020, but his legacy lives on through this program.
Filla joins three previous Cordes Scholars next year to mark the first time that the scholarship is funding students at full scholarship capacity.
