ISEC Teacher Jen Kennedy Students from Jen Kennedy’s third grade class at Nava Elementary learned about the Sun, Moon & Stars with the support of the Inquiry Science Education Consortium (ISEC) experiential materials and curriculum. Tracking the position of the…
Why I Give: Scholarships Jumpstart Careers and Create Opportunities “I realize the importance of education and continuous learning after going to college at age 27. I went from working as general contractor to getting a PhD in physics and math…
Learning by Discovery and Struggle: Brenda Dominguez, Golden Apple Award Winner & Exceptional ISEC Teacher Step into the classroom of Brenda Dominguez, third-grade teacher at Amy Biehl Community School in Santa Fe, and you immediately experience an example of excellence…
Heidi Hahn and Phil Goldstone, Leaving a Legacy of Support for Students Heidi Hahn and Phil Goldstone have been donors to Los Alamos Employees’ Scholarship Fund (LAESF) from the program’s beginning in 1999. They were inspired to give by their…
The LANL Foundation supports the work of schools, nonprofits and community programs in northern New Mexico through its grants program. Changes have been made to the grantmaking process to assure fair distribution of funds and alignment of outside programs with…
First Born: Providing the Tools for Parents to Joyfully Raise a Healthy, Well-developed Child Alison Ticknor, a telecommunications engineer who works from home in Los Alamos, and her husband, Dr. Chris Ticknor, a theoretical physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory,…
Two people, Mathilde Schaumberg and her husband Joseph, recently came forward to publicly thank the Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation for helping the kids in their program have a great time this summer. Mathilde Schaumberg, a teacher and the director…
Scholarship and Lab Internship Helped Shape the Career of a Winner from the Valley Lindsay Redman says she always knew she would have a career in science. As early as Kindergarten, she was active in school science fairs and sought…
From Free Spirit to Disciplined Cadet, Scholarship Winner Uses Leadership to Give Back to Others Growing up in Cerrillos, NM, life for Solomon Sindelar was anything but typical. The small town located on the Turquoise Trail south of Santa Fe…
Above: ETS Fairview Elementary School 2nd Grade Teacher Elias Allison and with their award checks. Honoring Excellent Teachers in Rio Arriba County During a surprise school assembly at Ojo Caliente Elementary school, LANL Foundation K-12 Education Program Director Gwen Perea…