Success Stories

2019 LANL Scholar Nathaniel Gonzales

June 5, 2019

The summer before his senior year, Nathaniel Gonzales started running toward his future. Staying with his older brother in the tiny town of Quemado, NM, Nathaniel would run the length of the village and back again,...

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2019 LANL Scholar Caitlyn Cruz

June 3, 2019

Caitlyn Cruz was in the softball dugout lacing her cleats when she got the call that she was the recipient of a $10,000 John & Marti Browne Leadership Scholarship from the LANL Foundation and Los Alamos Employees’...

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Social Emotional Support for Educators

April 29, 2019

Photos: By Genevieve Russell, courtesy Mountain Cloud Zen Center “As teachers, we are the fastest walkers and the fastest eaters, but I know that we can slow down. It is possible,” said Helen Young who led a group of 25...

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Rebecca DeLair, ISEC Teacher at Abiquiú Elementary

April 29, 2019

The Inquiry Science Education Consortium offers grade-specific STEM teaching and learning opportunities at the elementary school level. Complex science and engineering concepts are broken down into engaging activities...

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Maxine Ortiz, ISEC Teacher at Hernandez Elementary

February 5, 2019

When you walk into Maxine Ortiz’s science classroom at Hernandez Elementary School in the Española Valley Public School District, you see posters on the walls, charts of collected data, experiential materials neatly on...

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Honoring 2018 Teachers in Rio Arriba County & Pojoaque

January 1, 2019

Teachers may be drawn to their profession for many different reasons, but when asked why they stay, they’d probably give a similar response. Passion for their students and guiding their learning keeps the bests...

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NGSS Training for Middle & High School Teachers

November 30, 2018

During the 2018 fall semester, the LANL Foundation K–12 Program team answered calls for support related to New Mexico’s newly adopted version of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). The NM STEM Ready Standards...

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First NM Home Visiting Summit is a Big Success

September 5, 2018

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,”...

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2017 Silver Scholar Jennifer Necker

August 28, 2018

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...

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