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Students Flourish at High Tech UHorrigan wins scholarship, Ilia earns Honeywell internship By Dreylon Vang The stereotypical thought of technology is something futuristic, sci-fi, video games, flat screens, the latest phones, and computers. But at the heart of it all technology is just another way to make human life and function easier and more efficient. Programs like High Tech U help to “Introduce students to Technology Industry”, according to an SRP salt (River Project) press release. High Tech U holds an annual program for high school students which helps to further their knowledge on math and science. “This is Coronado’s third year of participation”, says Mrs. Mills who is the Head of the Science department. She has helped send many students to High Tech U September 22-24, and was also pleased to learn that Jacqueline Horrigan, 10, received the Shag Takayama Global Leadership Scholarship. Every year the programs staff picks two students who demonstrate positive attitude, teamwork, leadership, participation and professionalism and award them with the thousand dollar scholarship. Horrigan happily explained, “even though I was very surprised I was also very thankful for receiving the scholarship.” Horrigan also said that she hasn’t decided what college or university she plans to attend but she’s happy the scholarship can be used at any college or university. High Tech U is also very focused on keeping the students involved and affiliated with the program even after participation, for example the five year follow up for every participant and in some cases the future staff involvement like Demiana Ilia. Demiana (10) was a previous participant of High Tech U, so when she learned that former participants could become Ambassadors for the program she thought it was a great opportunity. “I was inspired by the program and loved to help out so I decided to become an Ambassador for High Tech U”. Besides all the experiments and technology based activities like the ‘Statapult’, a trebuchet aimed by proper setup based on statistics, the week held a good deal more opportunities for Coronado students. It would seem that things couldn’t get any better for Coronado students but then again Demiana’s brother Bishouy Illia (11) participated in this year’s program and was offered an internship at Honeywell, including paid tuition for college, given that he majors in aerospace and minors in engineering. |
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