Student Overcomes Family’s Financial Setback to Head to College | Edison International
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2015-04-29
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A $40,000 Edison Scholars award allows Michaela Edwards to pursue her lifelong interest in the environment.
Michaela Edwards will be the first to tell you she lived an idyllic childhood her first few years growing up on Catalina Island. But the recession in 2008 ended that.
Her father’s construction business slowed. Her mother lost her job and her parents were forced to sell their home — the house Michaela grew up in. The economic uncertainty that followed cast a shadow over her plans to go to college to pursue environmental studies, her passion.
But Michaela put those worries aside during a recent Avalon School sports assembly. As the school band’s drummer, she was asked before the assembly to be ready to play a drum roll prelude for “an announcement about an important student award.”
Read more: http://bit.ly/1bUZ7Du
© 2015 | 3BL Media/Edison International | All Rights Reserved
Michaela Edwards will be the first to tell you she lived an idyllic childhood her first few years growing up on Catalina Island. But the recession in 2008 ended that.
Her father’s construction business slowed. Her mother lost her job and her parents were forced to sell their home — the house Michaela grew up in. The economic uncertainty that followed cast a shadow over her plans to go to college to pursue environmental studies, her passion.
But Michaela put those worries aside during a recent Avalon School sports assembly. As the school band’s drummer, she was asked before the assembly to be ready to play a drum roll prelude for “an announcement about an important student award.”
Read more: http://bit.ly/1bUZ7Du
© 2015 | 3BL Media/Edison International | All Rights Reserved
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