Dr. Rudy Reyna

Rudy Reyna, director of the Tex Prep Program at the University of Texas at San Antonio will present the luncheon theme: Education Impact: Educating our Future Workforce in the Permian Basin.

"This grant is very timely for our students this summer, as we will be adding seven to eight new TexPREP sites across the state," says Rudy Reyna, executive director of PREP.

"If we as a nation want to maintain the innovation we have had in the past, a lot of it comes from technology and scientific engineers," said Rudy Reyna, director of the PREP program."Innovation drives the economy and our standard of living.Products developed here today may come from elsewhere in the future."

The program targets Hispanics, the nation's fastest-growing population, and African Americans, both ethnicities that are not well represented in science and engineering fields.Minorities make up 80 percent of PREP students, and nearly all go to college, Reyna said.Of those, 86 percent graduate, far better than the national average of 53 percent, and about half earn degrees in math, science or engineering.

"These kids are put into a college environment with other kids like them, who want to do well," Reyna said.

"PREP changes lives," said Rudy Reyna, director of San Antonio PREP, TexPREP and Proyecto Access.He made the remark to approximately 200 students at an exhibition of PREP projects at South San High School.
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PREP provides such rigorous training that many former students later remark that high school and some college classes are more easily understood, said Reyna.

Because PREP mixes students from underserved school districts with others from higher achieving districts, students are introduced to their future job market competition.

"Education isn't equal," Reyna said.

Dr. Rudy Reyna, director of the Tex Prep Program at the University of Texas at San Antonio will present the luncheon theme: Education Impact: Educating our Future Workforce in the Permian Basin.

Rudy Reyna (University of Texas, San Antonio)

Rudy Reyna (University of Texas, San Antonio)

Rudy ReynaDirector, 2007 Pan American Games Bid Project

A ceremony was held in the district auditorium, as the participants were praised for their efforts by Dr. Rudy Reyna, the director of the PREP program and a South San graduate.