Anna Richards, an eighth-grade student at Canton Charter Academy, was surprised during an assembly with a $5,000 college scholarship. Principal Kelie Fuller announced Anna as one of seven recipients of the 2018 National Heritage Academies (NHA) CollegeBoundTM Scholarship.
As part of the application process, each applicant was required to write a personal essay on one of four topics. Anna selected perseverance, a moral focus virtue, for her personal essay.