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<\/a><\/p>\nIrma Rangel Young\u00a0student Karen Chavez addresses the crowd at the STEM-liner event in DFW.<\/h5>\n
Representing Barack Obama Leadership Academy, Irma Rangel Young Women\u2019s Leadership School, South Oak Cliff High School and W.H. Adamson High School, the high schoolers were chosen for the trip based on their academic achievements and commitment to advanced learning.<\/p>\n
To kick-off the experience, American Airlines, Envoy and several other sponsors hosted a dinner for students, their parents, teachers, and DISD representatives at Envoy\u2019s Maintenance Hangar at Dallas\/Fort Worth International Airport. After dinner, students were able to do a quick tour of Envoy\u2019s Embraer 175 aircraft, the same aircraft they would board the following day.<\/p>\n
As part of the program, guests were honored to hear from Gary Littrell, Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, on the importance of integrity and character in our society. They also heard from Michael Jernigan, who was wounded in war, but in spite of adversity has become an inspiration to many by sharing his experience.<\/p>\n The student speaker, Karen Chavez, a sophomore from Irma Rangel Young Women\u2019s Leadership School, said that the STEM program will give her the tools she\u2019ll need in the future to \u201cimpact the lives of other people through the participation in the advancement of research in the medical field, and provide accessibility solutions to the community and those around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n A once in a lifetime opportunity. That is what 38 high school students from the Dallas Independent School District (DISD) were about to embark upon during the STEM-Liner Experience held May 19-22 at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The STEM-Liner Experience is an immersive event designed to empower young people who are interested in positively […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":42152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[105,64,65,66,77,144,185,419,58,86,51,68,118,79,87,420,421,376,98,80,177,422,91,171,103,83],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8973"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\nGary Littrell recites the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance with DISD Students.<\/h5>\n
Click here to see all of the photos from the event!<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"