Awards Overview
The following awards will be available as they are announced on the Quaqua website, as a result of Board decisions dictated by Quaqua's available financial and volunteer resources.

• Protégé Award
  The Quaqua Protégé Award recognizes the applicant with superior, general, balanced skills and accomplishments for the relevant year. "Balanced" in this context means that the applicant has a useful cluster of abilities that complement his or her core competency. The Quaqua Protégé symbolizes and embodies the ideals promoted by the Quaqua Society.

• Merit Awards
  Other merit scholarships use the format as the Quaqua Protégé Award and honor other applicants with considerable (though sometimes less general or balanced) merit.

  These other Merit Awards are named for the following:

1. To honor prominent home-educated individuals from the past (e.g. “Quaqua Franklin Scholarship Award,” “Quaqua Edison Scholarship Award,” etc.),
2. “With Appreciation to” a donor who wishes such identification in conjunction with the Award, or to a person the Committee wishes to honor, or
3. “In Memory of” a person, place, event, or thing that a donor or the Committee wishes to honor by identifying them (or it) in conjunction with the Merit Award.

• Talent Awards
  Other separate categories of scholarships are permitted for applicants with unusual ability with respect to a specialized talent or accomplishment (for such activities as the performing arts, applied sciences, entrepreneurship, governmental participation, sports, etc.).

• Need Awards
  For applicants demonstrating special economic need as one (or the only) factor weighed into the applicant evaluation process (“Need Awards”).

• Elijah Award
  The Elijah Award recognizes the individual who has made the greatest contribution to the home education community during the past elapsed year, which may include a contribution to the protection of parental rights and efforts to turn the hearts of parents to their children, and the hearts of children to their parents.

• Parent of the Year Award
  This award recognizes an outstanding parent who is involved in alternative education.