Avalon Student Overcomes Family’s Financial Setback to Head to College
A $40,000 Edison Scholars award allows Michaela Edwards to pursue her lifelong interest in the environment.
Michaela Edwards, a senior at Avalon School on Catalina Island, shows off the medallion she received with her $40,000 Edison Scholars award.
Michaela Edwards, still wearing the brace that supports the snare drum she plays in the Avalon School band, reacts during a sports assembly to news she won a $40,000 Edison Scholars award.
Michaela Edwards, a senior at Avalon School on Catalina Island, stands with the $40,000 Edison Scholars check she received to help fund her environmental studies education at the University of San Francisco.
Michaela Edwards, a senior at Avalon School on Catalina Island, gets a hug from her mother, Katalina Vargas Edwards, after the announcement that Michaela had won a $40,000 Edison Scholars award.
