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First NM Home Visiting Summit is a Big Success

More than 300 early childhood program professionals and stakeholders gathered in Albuquerque for the first statewide New Mexico Home Visiting Summit. The event’s theme, “Raising Our Children, Elevating Our Profession,” reflected not only the effectiveness of expanding family support systems…

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2017 Silver Scholar Jennifer Necker

Jennifer Necker diving with a black grouper in Cuba. I would like to express my thanks once again for your generosity for the continued scholarship. I had a wonderful first year at Eckerd College taking many classes. I even got…

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2018 Scholar Will Song

Will Song at his mom’s Chinese restaurant in Taos where he busses tables and spent countless hours doing homework and engaging with customers. Photo courtesy of the LANL Foundation, Andrea Multari Will (Jinpeng) Song, 2018 Taos High School graduate and valedictorian, is…

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2018 Scholar Viviana Martinez Espiricueta

Viviana Martinez Espiricueta pictured in The MASTERS program atrium. Education has opened up a world of possibility for her. Photo courtesy of the LANL Foundation, Andrea Multari Viviana Martinez Espiricueta, 2018 graduate of The MASTERS Program will attend St. Edwards University to study business…

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2018 Scholar Veronica Trujillo

Photo and story courtesy Los Alamos National Laboratory When Veronica Trujillo was a child, her father—a mechanical engineer—taught her physics and calculus using his old college textbooks, which filled an entire bookshelf in their house. “He’s one of the people…

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2018 Scholar Caleb Hatler

Photo and story courtesy Los Alamos National Laboratory As a high school junior, Caleb Hatler took Advanced Robotics I and II at the University of New Mexico-Los Alamos. There, he became so fascinated with additive manufacturing that he purchased a…

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ISEC Teachers Cadie Carrillo & Myra Ulibarri

Over the last year, Inquiry Science Education Consortium (ISEC) Professional Development (PD) Specialist Doris Rivera, PD Coordinator Danielle Gothie, and ISEC Program Manager David Call have spent time supporting teachers in Chama Valley Independent Schools, one of the districts in…

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Tim Martin Memorial Scholarship

Commemorating a Loved One – The Tim Martin Memorial Scholarship Tim Martin was born in 1961 in the small town of El Rito, New Mexico. Growing up on a ranch with his parents Pat and JoAnn, and his older brother…

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Honoring Rio Arriba Teachers 2017

Above: Centerra Director of Protective Force Operations & Training Lennie Upshaw congratulates San Juan Elementary School 5th–6th grade teacher Trina Allander-Lujan on winning the Rio Arriba County Excellence in Teaching Award; LANLF Vice President of Institutional Advancement & Scholarships Tony…

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Lightbulbs of Learning Go on Outside the Classroom

Fourth grade teachers at El Camino Real Academy followed ISEC lessons in electricity with a make-at-home project for enhanced learning. Students worked with parents to build incredibly detailed model houses that incorporate electricity and lighting. In this video, teacher Edmund…

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