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Graduate urges Fabens ISD to preserve engineering endorsement, citing NASA visits and internships
Summary
Roberto Rodriguez, a 2021 graduate, told the board the high-school engineering endorsement opened doors to internships and competitive university teams and urged the district to maintain the program for current juniors and seniors.
Roberto Rodriguez addressed the board as a recent graduate and urged the trustees to retain the high-school engineering endorsement. He said the program opened opportunities "from going to NASA to getting my 1st internship," and told the board the skills he gained — communication, time management and leadership — helped him win scholarships and join competitive university teams.
Rodriguez described concrete student outcomes (university internships, scholarship consideration and team leadership) and linked those results to the presence of the local engineering program and teachers he credited by name. He asked the board to consider data, labor-market trends and the district's role in preparing students for regional aerospace and defense employers.
The board heard related testimony from parents and staff urging that seniors and juniors be allowed to complete multi-year CTE sequences; no formal board action on the endorsement was recorded during this meeting.
