Success Stories

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…

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…

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…

My name is Justina C. Coriz, and  I am a tribal member of the Cochiti and Santo Domingo Pueblos. I am a student/athlete at Haskell Indian Nations University (HINU) in Lawrence, Kansas. I am beginning my fourth year at this…

Above: ISEC teacher Rachel Barber and her class at Pojoaque 6th Grade Academy start a lesson in a Meaning Making Circle.   Synthesizing Complex Concepts  After just returning from spring break, and in anticipation of PARCC testing, ISEC teacher Rachel…

A Small, Local Library Opens Up a World of Learning Joseph Estrada is a voracious learner and reader. He calls the Embudo Valley Library the center of the community, but for him it was like a second home. The library…

Wilbur Wang, Los Alamos Employees’ Scholarship Fund award winner, is driven by curiosity. Growing up in Los Alamos meant being surrounded by exploration, open-ended questions, research, and above all science. “This community is centered around LANL, and you can’t help…

Did you know that the LANL Foundation offers support for adults returning to education? Scholarships offered through the  Los Alamos Employees’ Scholarships Fund (LAESF) for Northern New Mexicans seeking higher education are not just for students straight out of high…

So often the message in education is that students are failing and it’s all the fault of teachers. Professional development is sent in to “fix” us and save our students from our shortcomings as educators. This is a powerfully disheartening…

For Los Alamos Employees’ Scholarship winner Khaled Khweis, growing up with three sisters and two brothers brought a spirit of competition. They had lively dinner discussions with their parents, asserted their points of view, disagreed, took sides, and often tried…