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STEM Scholar hopes to inspire others as AC’s Fall Commencement speaker

When Jesus Marquez was in middle school, he dreamed about being a secret agent, never imagining he would actually get to work at Pantex as part of Amarillo College’s STEM Scholars Program. Marquez, who completed an electrical-engineering internship last summer at Pantex, has been chosen to serve as the student speaker at AC’s Fall Commencement, which is at 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 13 at the Amarillo Civic Center.

Gift of $500,000 from ECU Foundation to support STEM scholarships at AC

The Education Credit Union Foundation today made a generous and impactful gift of $500,000 to Amarillo College to establish five endowed scholarships for students in STEM fields – science, technology, engineering or math.

In honor of the gift, the College has co-branded one its primary learning spaces in its STEM Research Center and christened it the ECU Foundation STEM Lab.