Tag: Minddrive

Girls in ‘tough-boy’ jobs: Young welders torch outdated beads on what’s possible

By Tommy Felts / June 15, 2021

Vanessa Bello and Adriana Figueroa feel a rush of adrenaline as they gear up in their welding uniforms and watch their blueprints come to life — it’s a feeling everyone deserves to experience, regardless of gender, they shared.  “It’s all dark but you see this little light while welding; then when you take off your…

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Oz Qureshi and Carlos Alonzo, Minddrive

Student who helped pioneer Minddrive paves way for Honeywell’s first Latinx engineering scholarship

By Tommy Felts / July 30, 2020

Perseverance and transparency fueled Minddrive alum Carlos Alonzo’s award as the first recipient of Honeywell’s new four-year $20,000 Latinx engineering scholarship with guaranteed job placement upon graduation, said Oz Qureshi. Alonzo first applied for Honeywell’s engineering scholarship that has historically been allocated to African-American students and in partnership with the Black Achievers Society, said Qureshi,…

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Minddrive fuels youth development through hands-on STEM

By Tommy Felts / October 27, 2017

Carlos Alonzo, a 15-year-old engineer at Minddrive, was always good at math. In the seventh grade, Alonzo’s teachers gave him the opportunity to skip ahead and take algebra. Although he enjoyed it and did well in the class, he ran into a problem: His school didn’t offer him an advanced class for eighth grade. That one-year…

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