The Burley Smith family has funded the SMIKids Scholarships for undergraduate and graduate scholarships since 2004. These prestigious scholarships are awarded to students who are interested in the meat industry and who combine academic excellence and extracurricular activities to the highest degree.

Here are the lists of the previous winners of the SMIKids Scholarships:

Undergraduate students

• Megan Laster, 2004
• Kristin Voges, 2005
• Jessica Igo, 2006
• Ashley Haneklaus, 2007
• Haley Deitzel Grimes, 2008
• Haley Deitzel Grimes, 2009
• Melanie Moore, 2010
• Jessica Steger, 2011
• Kevin Doonan, 2012
• Courtney Hemphill, 2013
• Anna Schmidt, 2016
• Meagan Finley, 2017
• Brian “Bo” Garcia, 2018
• Kayla Cates, 2019

Graduate students

• Celeste Schuehle, 2004
• Megan Laster, 2005
• Eric Metteauer, 2006
• Megan Maenius, 2007
• Ashley Haneklaus, 2008
• Laura May, 2009
• Miles Guelker, 2010
• Cody Labus, 2011
• Leslie Frenzel, 2012
• Crystal Waters, 2013
• Michael Berto, 2014
• Hillary Henderson, 2015
• Courtney Boykin, 2016
• Clay Eastwood, 2017
• Chandler Steele, 2018
• Kayley Wall, 2019