New Focus on Education

02. 1.10 | By DFP in: La Luz Center , The La Luz Family

By Paul Martinez — La Luz has recently formed a new committee to focus on education. One of the first tasks was to review and evaluate last year’s high school scholarships to judge their effectiveness. La Luz had awarded 10 scholarships to Hispanic high school graduates accepted to UC Davis, Dominican University, San Francisco State, and others.

One SVHS student, Marcos Rendon, was awarded a La Luz scholarship that helped him attend Cal State University at Chico this fall. Marcos is the first of his family to go to college. He plans on graduating in Music Technology with a minor in business. As he had no formal music background, starting his classes “was like going to a whole different country where they speak a different language,” says Marcos. He is working harder scholastically than ever before, and is fulfilling a long held dream made possible by support from La Luz.

This is exactly the kind of change we want to influence in our community.  We want our Scholarship program to motivate students to think "outside the box" and envisage whole new life paths.  ❧