Palomar Audubon Society has a multifaceted mission, including a community outreach program with several special initiatives. One of these initiatives is our teen Scholarship program which PAS has sponsored since 2004. This year, we provided a 100% scholarship award conducted by the American Birding Association at Camp Colorado. The 2024 Young Birders Camp Colorado was located at Allenspark, Colorado, which is near the Rocky Mountain National Park. The recipient of our 2024 PAS Scholarship Award was Faith Barton. Faith Barton is 16 years old, lives in Spring Valley, and is a junior at Liberty University Online Academy. She really got hooked on birds five years ago when she was just 11 years old. During the pandemic restrictions, she was doing some backyard birding and saw a nice bright-colored male Hooded Oriole. The Hooded Oriole has become her “spark bird”. Her main interest now is avian photography. In 2023, three of Faith’s photos were selected by the National Audubon Society’s annual Photography Top 100 awards. Also, Faith has formed a faith-based birding group through her Jamul Community Church called the Early Birds. Once a month, Faith leads the Early Birds on a local San Diego County field trip. Faith has also led several paddle boarding birding field trips with the annual San Diego Bird Festival.