Meet, Ava, one of our 2022 Scholarship recipients! Ava Michaelides is a freshman at UConn studying environmental engineering. Ava loves pasta, fiction reading, and the earth, and if she had to sit down to dinner with one person (living or dead), she would choose Greta Thunberg.
Ava graduated from Red Hook High School (RHHS) in 2022 and says that the things she misses the most about Red Hook are the simplicity and the little things. Transitioning from Red Hook to a large school like UConn is a big shift, and Ava’s biggest takeaway is: don’t be afraid to put yourself out there!
In college, Ava is on the field hockey team and recently helped raise money for HuskyThon, a fundraiser for the Connecticut Children’s Hospital. She is also in the Society of Women Engineers, where eighth-grade girls come to learn about STEM. If Ava could give the present RHHS graduating class any advice, it would be: don’t be afraid to succeed!