Success Stories

Grant Recipient ARTsmart

July 9, 2019

The unique landscape and cultural traditions of Northern New Mexico have long inspired artists, but sadly, many schools within this beautiful landscape lack art education programming. With the support of the LANL...

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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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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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Social Emotional Support for Educators

April 29, 2019

Photos: By Genevieve Russell, courtesy Mountain Cloud Zen Center Teachers are always on the go. They are required to focus on the needs of their students throughout the day with minimal breaks and little time for...

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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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Hour of Code

December 5, 2018

More than 350 schools and community sites hosted Hour of Code learning events in New Mexico during national Computer Science Education Week, held December 3–7, 2018. New Mexico TechWorks and Los Alamos National...

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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). NM STEM Ready Standards...

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Maxine Ortiz, ISEC Teacher at Hernandez Elementary

November 20, 2018

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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