Last week we discovered that Cooper was invited to the senior awards night, but we didn't know why. We attended the ceremony tonight and discovered that Cooper was given a scholarship that he hadn't applied for! We think his guitar teacher must have submitted his name. Cooper was the recipient of the Certificate of Academic Excellence for the C. F. Martin Music Award. As far as I can tell, this comes from the Martin Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Martin Guitar. And it came with a $500 scholarship!
Not bad considering he didn't even know he was in the running.
