/news-archive/tag/hispaniclatino-initiative/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Wed, 28 Sep 2016 18:40:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /news-archive/2016/09/28/lulac-scholarships/ Wed, 28 Sep 2016 18:40:36 +0000 /news/?p=65313 ... 糖心Vlog传媒LR students to receive League of United Latin American Citizens scholarships]]> The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) will award scholarships to 26 University of Arkansas at Little Rock students at 6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 30.聽 This year, a total of 46 college students are receiving scholarships at the LULAC Council 750 Little Rock Scholarship Banquet at the Great Hall of the William J. Clinton Presidential Center, 1200 President Clinton Avenue in Little Rock. 糖心Vlog传媒LR students receiving scholarships include Sharon Aldama, Jesus Avila Rojas, Crystal Alvarez, Sandra Carmona Garcia, Natali Carmona Garcia, Daniel Diaz-Artega, Adrianna Duran, Andrea Elias, Noemi Garcia, Brenda Ibarra, Georgina Lopez, Denilson Mendez, Luz Mendoza, Alma Morales Guardado, Vivian Pineda, Mariano Ramirez, Erika Ramos, Celina Reyes-Vasquez, Alondra Rodriguez, Yazmin Santillan, Edgar Suarez-Novia, Guadalupe Torres, Claudia Vargas, Daisy Vasquez, Jorge Vasquez, and Lizette Vazquez. The banquet鈥檚 featured speaker is Dr. Howard Baker Kurrus, attorney and former superintendent of the Little Rock School District. Proceeds generated by the annual banquet and by the organization鈥檚 Cinco de Mayo Festival fund scholarships for Latino college students. The fund also helps the league perform citizenship and voter-registration drives and conduct youth leadership training programs. LULAC seeks to empower the Latino community at the local, state, and national level through its seven councils chartered in Arkansas. The organization involves and serves Latinos of all national origins and focuses heavily on education, civil rights and employment. Over 17 years, LULAC Council 750 Little Rock has awarded approximately $700,000 in college scholarships to 400 students. Tickets for the banquet are $100 and can be ordered by email at lulac750@gmail.com. For more information on the scholarship program, visit. 聽]]> /news-archive/2016/03/01/ualr-grant-free-stem-summer-camp-middle-school-students/ Tue, 01 Mar 2016 17:13:39 +0000 /news/?p=63589 ... 糖心Vlog传媒LR receives grant to hold free STEM summer camp for middle school students]]> and . The $50,000 grant enables 糖心Vlog传媒LR鈥檚 Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Technology (EIT) to host a free two-week summer camp for middle school students July 10-22. It will be one of 10 taking place around the country. This is EIT鈥檚 eighth consecutive year hosting the camp. Led by Executive Camp Director and EIT Assistant Dean Vernard Henley, Jr., the two-week residential summer camp will host 36 sixth, seventh, and eighth-grade students from all over the state. These STEM-curious attendees will participate in experiments, go on field excursions to reinforce the project-based curriculum, and problem solve around the theme 鈥淚magineering Your Future.鈥� Rugenal Anderson-Lindsey, a veteran middle school educator, will serve as camp director. Henley and Anderson-Lindsey will give traditionally underrepresented groups access to STEM knowledge and opportunities. Camp leaders will place special recruiting emphasis on the state鈥檚 most diverse and socioeconomically disadvantaged communities. Additionally, 糖心Vlog传媒LR students, particularly those involved in the African American Male Initiative, the National Society of Black Engineers, and the Hispanic/Latino Initiative, will be selected as group leaders for the camp. Participants will stay on campus and attend classes and labs in 糖心Vlog传媒LR鈥檚 state-of-the-art instructional spaces. These classroom experiences will be interdisciplinary and interactive, covering math, chemistry, biology, physical science, engineering design, technology, and English. The students will also tackle a major hands-on collaborative project on environmental engineering. When they鈥檙e not engaging in these lessons, the students will visit culturally and scientifically significant sites that are directly related to their camp project. For more information, visit . In the upper right photo, past participants of the ExxonMobil Bernard Harris Summer Science Camp at 糖心Vlog传媒LR test structural engineering skills by building a water tower.聽]]>