News Briefs

The Mayor’s Intern Fellows Program gives Dallas ISD high school juniors and seniors real world experience in a professional field. The Hub is spotlighting some of these Dallas ISD students participating in the program. Today, meet Galilea Hernandez, a student at Irma Rangel Young Women’s Leadership School who is an intern with Dallas ISD’s Summer Learning and Extended Day Service Department. What is your role as an intern? I assist with the departmental organization for the summer program that is taking place, draft agendas for meetings, as well as help with the organizations of Excel documents and other small tasks that I am asked…

Eleven graduating seniors received a total of $10,000 in scholarships from the Metropolitan Dallas Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Through a lengthly application process, recipients were awarded based on academic merit and need. During the celebration honoring the graduates across Dallas County, students received scholarship monies to go to the college of their choice. The top recipients were awarded $1,500. To read more about the event, read an article written by the Dallas Examiner on the scholarship ceremony here.

Recent Emmett J. Conrad High School graduate, David Kapuku, earned his spot as the 2016 salutatorian, but not without challenges to adjusting to life in a new country. Hear his story of academic achievement, which led him to being accepted to the University of Texas at Austin. He plans to study petroleum engineering in the fall. LINK:  For This Student, The Road From Africa Leads To Austin

Curley Johnson, a former punter for New York Jets’ Super Bowl III-winning team and graduate from Woodrow Wilson High School, died last month, ESPN reports. ESPN reports that Johnson was one of the best punters in the team’s history. Go here to read the full ESPN story. Johnson was one of more than 20 Dallas ISD alums who have played in the Super Bowl.