Young students lauded at 25th PREP closing assembly
(July 31, 2003)--More than 4,000 people filled the UTSA Convocation Center Thursday morning for the 25th San Antonio Prefreshman Engineering Program (PREP) Closing Assembly.
Pictured addressing the assembly is keynote speaker Veronica Zamora-Campos, a physician at the South Texas Center for Pediatric Care and a PREP alumna. Zamora-Campos encouraged the students to pursue higher education as a means to accomplish their goals in life. She also advised parents to help their children by seeking financial assistance through grants and scholarships.
In addition to recognizing the 1,100 students who participated in the eight-week program held at nine San Antonio college and university campuses, PREP officials awarded three scholarships to outstanding students in the program.
Lakeisha Pounds, a senior at Jefferson High School, received a $1,000 Riklin Scholarship. David Casso, McCollum High School freshman, and Monica Friel, Southwest High School sophomore, were each awarded $1,000 scholarships from the Hispanic Association of Communications Employees at SBC (HACEMOS).
Founded in 1979 by UTSA mathematics professor Manuel P. Berriozabal, PREP identifies achieving middle and high school students with the interest and potential for careers in science, engineering and technology, and other mathematics-related areas and reinforces them in the pursuit of these fields.
Since the program's inception, more than 10,000 students in the San Antonio
area have completed at least one summer component and more than 20,000 have
completed TexPREP, the program replicated in 13 Texas communities.
For more information, call the PREP office at 210-458-2062.
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