Thomas Pressly

Students Create High-Tech Prize Wheel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWIIJBmriBY By NVC’s Dr. Thomas Pressly Bringing the spin to mathematics! Twelve whizz students, backed by NVC’s PLUS+STEM Department of Education Grant, created a stunning prize wheel as part of a service-learning project. The NVC Math Department and support labs (JH-308 Math Advocacy and JH-316 Math Tutoring) plans to use the wheel at college events

Helping STEM Students Get to St. Mary’s University

Northwest Vista College will partner under St. Mary’s University on a grant project funded by the National Science Foundation to increase the transfer and retention rates of Hispanic students majoring in STEM fields. The NSF’s Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) Program grant awarded to St. Mary’s will help implement Project FUERTE: Fostering Undergraduate Education, Retention and