YOUTH CONFERENCE
The Hispanic Center of Western Michigan has the honor of continuing the legacy of the conference going forward by assuming leadership of the event and adding it to the Center’s programming. For the last two decades, the Latinx Youth Conference has sought to instill a passion for education in students by offering them:
The goal of the conference is to cultivate an emotional and psychological worldview that
is bigger than the challenges these young people face.
The 2025 Latinx Youth Conference is a community‐led effort with more than one hundred volunteers that give time and talents to serve nearly 800 eighth-grade middle school students. Managed by the Hispanic Center of Western Michigan in partnership with Grand Rapids Community College, the event would not be possible without the generosity of partners that support an enhanced quality of life for underserved communities.
Grand Rapids Community College (111 Lyon St NE, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49503).
Thursday, February 27, 2025.
From 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
The 2025 Latinx Youth Conference will award four laptops scholarships to eighth-grade students who meet the following criteria:
Interested students may submit for as many of the scholarship opportunities as they wish. Winners will receive a new laptop!
Make sure to upload your application before January 10, 2025.
Dr. Margaret Dominguez was born and raised in Mexico. She holds a B.S. in Physics from the Universidad de las Americas Puebla, Mexico. She also holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in Optical Sciences from the University of Arizona. Since 2009 she has been working as an Optical Engineer at NASA Goddard Space flight Center; where she is currently the test lead for the Grism component of the Roman Space Telescope, which will be launched in the mid-20s.
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