Latino is admitted to Top Mechanical Engineering Graduate School • 07.31.10
When was the last time you heard that? Usually, the news is about gang violence or drop out rates. Mauro Rodriguez is a former SHPE Region 6 RSR. He was admitted to five top mechanical engineering graduate programs at MIT, CalTech, UI, UC Berkeley and Stanford. He will attend Stanford in the fall. That is truly a success story. A story that should be shared among our college and high school chapters. We, as an organization, need to make every effort to dispel the notion that Hispanics cannot achieve; that the only news about them is negative; that their only contribution to the country is their multi-billon dollar spending capacity. I challenge every member in SHPE to share this story and others like it with our members via Facebook, Twitter, or whatever other social media outlet you choose. We need to point out these successes so we do not fall prey to the popular representation of Hispanics in the media. Hispanics are the future and the hope of this country. Let’s make sure we do not forget that fact.
