2024-2025 Scholarship Application is now closed.

2025 - 2026 application opens January 2, 2025

Check back in April for this year’s winners!

Graduating Seniors From:

Innovation Tech High School

Project More High School

TAP High School

Catalina High School

Desert View High School

Sunnyside High School

Star Academic High School


Marge Gould taught at Catalina HS for 28 years, retiring in 2014. For over 18 of those years she was the coordinator and teacher for the LEARN Program (an alternative literacy and workplace skills program for at-risk students supported by the Arizona Supreme Court Juvenile Services System). In this program students were allowed to learn based on their own abilities and treated as valued individuals (something that many of them never experienced in a classroom setting before). All of the students were recognized for their achievements at an annual “Celebrate Literacy” ceremony. Outstanding students received laptop computers and scholarships donated by the many business leaders and government partners Marge worked hard to cultivate. A number of these LEARN Center partners (including AZ Supreme Court Justices, Federal judges, US Congressmen, and top Tucson business people) came to the classroom to speak and work along other adult volunteers giving the students the support and encouragement they may not have had in other areas of their lives.

 

  • One scholarship of $1,500 (with possible additional awards at the discretion of the scholarship committee) will be granted annually to a graduating senior from Catalina High School, or Project More, or TAP High School, or Innovation Tech High School, or Sunnyside High School, or Desert View High School, or Star Academic High School, Tucson, AZ.

  • Scholarships are renewable for up to 3 additional years to qualifying students.

  • Applicants must complete the designated application providing all required documentation including personal essay and two letters of recommendation (one must be from a teacher at their school).

  • Applicants must be a graduating senior with a minimum 2.5 GPA (6 semesters).

  • Applicants must be accepted at an accredited “not-for-profit” college or university.

  • No proof of citizenship, residency, or immigration status is required.

  • Those applicants who qualify for FAFSA or other financial aid should complete the required applications.

  • Application must be downloaded, completed, submitted (as per instructions) along with all required documentation and recommendations by the due date and time.