Veronica Zamora-Campos
San Antonio PREP students to attend July 31 closing assembly
(July 30, 2003)--More than 1,100 middle and high school students are expected to attend the 25th Closing Day Assembly of the San Antonio Prefreshman Engineering Program (PREP) at 10 a.m., Thursday, July 31 at the UTSA Convocation Center on the 1604 Campus.
The eight-week program was conducted on nine college and university campuses in San Antonio.
Veronica Zamora-Campos, PREP alumna and physician for the South Texas Center for Pediatric Care, is the keynote speaker for the event.
In private practice for six years, Zamora-Campos is a member of the Mexican-American Physicians Association, Bexar County Medical Society and Texas Medical Association. She also served on the bylaws review and perinatal committees for Southwest General Hospital.
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.
Students receive up to one elective credit toward high school graduation for
each successfully completed summer of PREP.
For more information, call the PREP office at 210-458-2062.
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