Trinity School of Texas senior named NASA Scholar

LONGVIEW – Our news partners at KETK report a senior at Longview’s Trinity School of Texas (TST) has been named a NASA Texas High School Aerospace Scholar. Emilio M. was nominated for the prestigious program by TST and State Representative Jay Dean, and he was selected from over 800 high school juniors across the state to participate in this NASA engagement activity.

During the school year, Emilio completed a 16-week interactive online curriculum that included four learning modules, each containing four web-based STEM assignments.

Following his successful completion of the curriculum, he was selected for a NASA Summer Experience, which involved working virtually in teams, receiving briefings and interacting with NASA experts.

As part of the summer program, Emilio applied his knowledge by working as a team to plan and design a mission to the moon and mars.