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Three YES Prep Students Earn Assistance League of Houston Scholarships

April 26, 2011 by Donald Kamentz

A Monday morning for the seniors and college counselors in the last weeks of April and heading into May can bring stress.  This was not the case for three YES Prep Southeast seniors who were able to sneak away from campus for a few hours for a great reason – to be honored by the Assistance League of Houston as scholarship recipients for the 2011 school year.

YES Prep and ALH began their partnership three years ago and have awarded over $94,000 to 76 graduating seniors from YES Prep. Representing 18 total scholarship recipients awarded between $1,000-$2,000 this year, Olga Hernandez, Veronica Martinez and Ulises Mercado attended the yearly ALH Scholarship Breakfast to receive this great honor and reward of their hard work.

Below is a little more information about each of the

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YES Prep Southeast Senior Awarded Two Major Scholarships

April 21, 2011 by Tenesha Villanueva

YES Prep Southeast is pleased to announce that Class of 2011 senior, Victoria Gonzalez, was recently named a Dell Scholar and Terry Foundation Scholar! 

The Dell Scholars Program, supported by the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, is a unique scholarship and college persistence program that looks beyond academic performance to recognize students on the basis of individuality, unique experiences, willingness to work hard and ability to overcome obstacles and adverse circumstances. In addition to providing financial assistance, the Dell Scholars Program is designed to support students in achieving success through college graduation.   

Each Dell Scholar receives a computer, printer and $20,000 to be used for tuition, fees, books, and room and board over the course of six years. The

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Former Atty. Gen. Alberto Gonzales to Speak at Senior Signing Day

April 12, 2011 by Chris Barbic

We just confirmed that Alberto Gonzales will be delivering this year’s keynote remarks to our seniors at our Senior Signing Day Celebration being held at Rice University’s Tudor Field House on Friday, April 29, 2011. This year promises to be a great one . . . we will have THREE classes of seniors announcing their college plans.

Alberto Gonzalez is a native Houstonian who grew up poor on the Northside, graduated from Rice University, and went on to hold a cabinet level position in President’s Bush’s (43rd) Adminsitration. He will continue the great tradition we established last year in having Education Secretary Arne Duncan as our first-ever SSD speaker. One side note is that General Gonzales actually has spoken and addressed the seniors this past fall during the Senior Summit event

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YES Prep Alumna: I Have learned a great deal from many different role models in my life

April 11, 2011 by Tenesha Villanueva

SanJuanita Elizondo graduated from YES Prep in 2001.  She attended Drexel University where she majored in Computer Engineering and graduated in 2006.  SanJuanita currently works for Spectra Energy in Houston as an Application Developer.    

 SanJuanita on her experience at YES Prep…

What is your favorite YES Prep memory?

Any moment where there was bonding made for a great memory; and at YES Prep, we bonded very often. Some of my favorite memories are classroom activities like when Mr. Desrosiers would name a parabola and we had to make the shape of it with our arms or when Daisy and Rolando dressed up as the characters of The Great Gatsby in Ms. Pagani’s (Hines) class. And of course, the amazing trips to various cities and colleges across country were mind-opening