Inside Dallas ISD

To commemorate National Infrastructure Week on May 20, engineers from AECOM and Dallas Water Utilities hosted a “pop-up” classroom event focused on infrastructure and STEM programs at  CityLab High School. The event took place on Big Thought’s Dallas City of Learning Mobile Tech XPerience (MXP), a retrofitted RV equipped with the latest technology to bring accessible STEM learning directly to youth. Students had a chance to be an engineer for the day and participate in interactive STEM activities alongside AECOM engineers and clients as they learned about infrastructure design. This program is was to spark interest and curiosity in STEM…

For the past 10 years, Dallas ISD has partnered with the American Council of Engineering Companies of Dallas (ACEC Dallas chapter) for two great opportunities for students. Bytes for Kids is sponsored by the Texas Engineering Research Forum and organized with ACEC Dallas. The program focuses on encouraging elementary students to do their best in science and math, and provides awareness to careers in engineering. Each fall an engineer comes to speak to fifth-grade students about the world of engineering, and challenges them to give their all with the promise of iPads for four top students in May. Each six weeks for every…

Victor Nuñez, who is getting ready to graduate from Trinidad “Trini” Garza Early College High School at Mountain View, is also taking the road less traveled, a road that for many is also an unattainable dream…he’s going to Yale University. Not only has he been accepted into Yale, Nuñez was awarded a full-ride scholarship that will cover all of his college expenses. “Victor is a very accomplished student and I am so proud of him,” said Macario Hernandez, principal at Trinidad “Trini” Garza Early College High School. “Opportunities like this don’t come by easily, but it’s not impossible. Victor deserves…

North Dallas High School valedictorian Elizabeth Tan was only 13 when Child Protective Services escorted her away from the frightening environment she called home. Tan recalls packing everything she had into a single suitcase and moving into a women’s shelter with her mother and sister. “It was really chaotic. It was the final year before going off into high school, and suddenly everything changed,” Tan said. After one month, Tan and her family moved to another temporary shelter where they shared a single room. During that summer, Tan spent much of her time reading, writing and drawing; but nothing filled…