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The mission of the President’s Latino Advisory Committee is to enhance the educational success of Latino students at PCC.
The PLAC seeks to accomplish its mission by uniting the Latino community to provide support to Latino and Latina students at PCC. The PLAC is comprised of both community members and PCC faculty and staff. The PLAC welcomes involvement from the local business and civic community.
The PLAC also raises funds for scholarships. PLAC awarded five $1,000 scholarships to qualified deserving students in 2009. The funds for the scholarships were raised from PLAC committee members, PCC faculty and staff, and local businesses and friends of PCC. The PLAC plans to establish an endowment for scholarships. Applicants from this pool will also be considered for a $250 PCC Association of Latino Employees scholarship.
Click here for the Scholarship Applicaiton
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Summer Internship Opportunities at the National Science Foundation (NSF) for Undergraduate and Graduate Students
The 2013 QEM/NSF Science Student Internship Program will take place May 28–August 2, 2013, in the Washington, DC area, with placements at NSF headquarters in Arlington, VA. Science policy-focused internships provide undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to be mentored by program officers involved in implementing science policies and in managing/directing national science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM)-focused programs. The experience is designed to increase the students’ understanding of how science policy is made as well as to further develop their potential for becoming leaders and proponents of increased participation in science and engineering by students from underrepresented minority groups. For science policy-oriented internships at NSF, an applicant must be a rising junior or senior or graduate student majoring in a STEM field at an accredited minority-serving institution or a non-minority institution with a track record in producing large numbers of STEM graduates from underrepresented groups.
During the summer, interns will have the opportunity to strengthen their research, communications, and other professional skills; and to develop a peer network that includes students from across the country who are serving as summer interns in other QEM programs. Interns also will be provided the opportunity to become knowledgeable about issues preventing minority students from receiving a quality mathematics/science
education and to become familiar with policies, programs, and strategies being implemented to address these
Why Apply?
-An opportunity to be an intern for 10 weeks in the Washington, DC area
-The opportunity to be mentored by NSF program officers involved in implementing science policy and in managing/directing national programs focused on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)
-Roundtrip travel airfare and local transportation allowances
-Housing during the ten-week Program (for students not from the local area)
-A stipend for full-time participation
-A chance to develop a peer network that includes students from across the country who are serving as interns in other NSF programs.
Download the Application: 2013 QEM-NSF Internship Application
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Last weekendthe Association of Latino Employees, the PCC HSI Title V grantteams: eSTEM, DesignTech, TLC and United States Department of Agriculture Hispanic Serving Institution National Program (housed at Cal State San Bernardino) recently partnered to send a team of 16 PCC students, staff, faculty and administrators to the Hispanic Association of Colleges & Universities National Conference in Washington D.C. Seven PCC students participated in the student conference track. We are all full of ideas to implement at PCC to better meet the needs of students and the community.
While we were there we learned about fantastic internship opportunities for students and we convinced the HACU Washington D.C. representative to visit PCC to teach our students how to complete the internship application to increase the likelihood of being selected.
Over the past 20 years HACU has placed nearly 10,000 students from Hispanic Serving Institutions in federal/corporate internships and a couple thousand of these students have obtained full time employment within the federal government!
This Friday, Nov. 2, 2012 3-4 p.m. in the President’s Conference Room. Light Refreshments Provided.
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REU in Renewable Energy at Colorado School of Mines (May 27, 2013 to August 2, 2013)
The Renewable Energy Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (REMRSEC) REU program invites exceptional undergraduate math, science, and engineering students to participate in a ten-week summer research program addressing fundamental materials issues related to the science and technology of renewable energy. These highly interdisciplinary studies focus on multiple areas that are open to all materials science, engineering, physics, chemistry, mathematics, chemical engineering, and computer science majors.
Benefits include a $4,500 stipend, on-campus housing, travel reimbursement, and financial support to present research results at an upcoming national conference. Application materials, as well as videos of the college campus, REMRSEC, and previous student research projects can be found at http://remrsec.mines.edu/reu.htm.
The application deadline is February 1, 2013, although strong candidates will be accepted early. For more information contact Dr. Chuck Stone – Director, REMRSEC REU, Colorado School of Mines, 1523 Illinois Street, Golden, CO 80401 [email: [email protected] and phone: (303) 273-3762
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