Academy helps student’s Notre Dame dream come true

June 5, 2012 No Comments
Kelsey Rivera.

A Rio Grande Valley native, Kelsey Rivera saw how hard her parents had to work every day to keep her family afloat and it sparked a desire in her to ensure she had more financial security in her future. “My mother earned a certificate from a trade school and my father only completed high school,” she explained. “They have always provided all the love and support I needed and they always did their best to provide for me and my younger brother, but it was a struggle. Seeing their hard work made me determined at an early age that I was going to go to college and getting a chance at a … Read More …

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STC alumni encourage current students to live their dreams

June 15, 2011 No Comments
Students from South Texas College’s Dual Enrollment Academies participated in the spring 2011 college tours.

There is nothing better than getting a story first hand, hearing directly from the source about what to expect. And now, students in South Texas College Dual Enrollment Academy Program know what to expect when they graduate STC and transfer to a university. Alumni from STC’s academies spoke to current students during a recent college tour. The alums gave first-hand accounts of their experiences moving from a smaller region to live and go to school at some of the state’s largest universities.  Eighty-eight STC students participated in two separate tours. Thirty six STC Dual … Read More …

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Five minutes changed dual enrollment student’s life

June 2, 2011 1 Comment
South Texas College DEEA alum Joseph Russell Sargent graduated Magna Cum Laude from Norwich University and will attend Texas A&M University at College Station to earn his doctorate in industrial engineering.

There are pivotal moments in everyone’s life that can be reduced to a specific day, event, time frame or opportunity. In the case of South Texas College Dual Enrollment Engineering Academy alum Joseph Sargent, it came down to a five minute conversation with his principal at Weslaco High School five years ago as he was walking out the door to go home. That conversation placed him in the first class of STC’s DEEA that graduated in 2008. Three years later, Sargent graduated Magna Cum Laude and earned his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Norwich University in Northfield, … Read More …

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Big efforts produce big rewards for academy graduates

May 23, 2011 No Comments
Some STC DEMSA grads take a quick group picture backstage before graduation.

When the term “non-traditional students” comes up, it’s typically meant to refer to students who go back to school later in life, or that have families when they begin attending college. But the students in South Texas College’s Dual Enrollment Academies Program are giving that term a new meaning. They are high school students who devoted the last two years of their high school experience to also being college students and earning associate degrees. On May 14, 2011, 104 of those students made their college dreams reality when they walked STC’s graduation stage to receive their … Read More …

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College tours give STC students glimpse of future

September 17, 2010 No Comments
Students from the South Texas College Dual Enrollment Medical Science Academy are greeted at The University of Texas Health and Science Center at San Antonio during their college tour in August.

Getting a leg up on the competition is always a good thing, and when it has to do with the future, better yet. South Texas College’s Dual Enrollment Engineering (DEEA) and Dual Enrollment Medical Science (DEMSA) academies did just that during a pair of college tours over the 2010 summer. The STC DEMSA took 44 students on a three-day, three-city tour of four universities in Houston, Austin and San Antonio, while 39 students of the DEEA visited four universities in three days at Kingsville, Austin and San Antonio. The tours let students get a first-hand, in-depth look at college campus … Read More …

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82 lives accelerated, $1M in scholarships earned, futures changed forever

May 26, 2010 1 Comment
STC Dual Enrollment Engineering Academy students pose for a quick group picture before walking the graduation stage. From front left are Miguel Cavazos, Carlos Cavazos, Mariela Garza, Rolando Gonzalez, Hector Zamora, Leonardo Botello, Michael Perez and Carlos Pena. From back row left are Miguel Avalos, Edward Echroat, Efrain Fonseca, Raul Guaracha, Dominique Lopez and Sergio Lara.

What can two years mean in the life of a normal teenager? A lot. But what about an overachieving teenager? All you have to do is ask the 82 recent graduates of South Texas College’s Dual Enrollment Medical Science and Dual Enrollment Engineering academies. They walked the college’s graduation stage on May 15, earning associate degrees in biology or engineering, weeks before earning high school diplomas. “It’s a great program because you get to meet many new people from other cities and high schools and we’ve become like a family, studying together and helping each other out, which … Read More …

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Beautiful minds, hearts of gold

May 17, 2010 No Comments
Seventeen year old twin brothers Miguel Angel and Carlos Cavazos and their mother Virginia celebrate learning that they earned STC’s Presidential Inspirational Achievement award.

Asperger’s Syndrome is something most people don’t even know how to say, much less what it is. But Miguel Angel and Carlos Cavazos know all too well because they live with the form of Autism every day. The twin brothers from Las Milpas didn’t let it slow them down though. Rather, it helped them do the extraordinary – graduate from South Texas College with associate degrees in engineering weeks before earning their high school diplomas. “This is a major accomplishment because we survived two years of hard college material with good grades,” said Carlos. “We … Read More …

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STC students learn what it takes to launch a highflying career at NASA

November 5, 2009 No Comments
Students in STC's Dual Enrollment Engineering Academy learned about the art of space exploration when they toured the Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Several South Texas College Dual Enrollment Engineering Academy (DEEA) students learned about the art of space exploration and the engineering behind some of the world’s largest mechanical marvels when they toured the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston. The goal of the overnight adventure was to go beyond the classroom and expose the students to a variety of engineering careers available to them when they finish their studies. While in Houston students explored the inner workings of the space center, and learned about space suit design, astronaut training and space shuttle production. … Read More …

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