Shodor Student Receives Student Leadership Award from North Carolina SMT Education Center

May 3, 2010 - PRLog -- Shodor intern Alex Revelle has been awarded the Student Leadership Award in Science, Mathematics, and Technology Education by the North Carolina Science, Mathematics, and Technology (STM) Education Center. This award not only publicly recognizes Alex’s great work at Shodor but also awards Alex a $1000 scholarship helping him to continue his education in the science, math, and technology field.

Alex began his work at Shodor as a workshop student in 2006 and since then has completed Shodor’s apprentice program, which he chose to continue on to an internship where he has become a leader among his Shodor peers. Most recently Alex has been working with Shodor’s Braille website, Braille Through Remote Learning. This website, visited by thousands of users each month, is designed to be used as a resource for those wanting to instruct the visually impaired. Alex has taken the technical skills he has learned throughout his time at Shodor and been able to develop a more user friendly interface for the Braille webpage while updating the Braille webpage content routinely; he has also worked on numerous other projects such as writing articles for the Shodor newsletter InterActions, teaching offsite workshops to elementary and middle school students, and assisting Shodor staff in professional presentations.

Outside of Shodor Alex should be commended for his dedication to the Durham community through his work with the Durham Bulls’ Post 50, a video production team of Durham youth that work to broadcast Durham Bulls baseball games. As a graphics controller for the video production of these games, Alex is able to take some of the skills he has learned at Shodor and apply them in a real-world situation. Alex is also very accomplished in academics and has recently been accepted to North Carolina A&T State University, which he will be attending in the fall.  

“I am very grateful and humbled by this award because I realize just how prestigious it is. Out of all the people who applied I was the one chosen. It is important to me to thank all the staff at Shodor for their support, help and encouragement through the years. They have taught me that hard work and dedication can pay off in a big way. When I started with Shodor in 2006 I was not sure if I would like it. Now that I am a high school senior it's going to be hard for me to eventually leave. In fact, I am considering continuing my Shodor internship when I enroll in college in the fall,” Alex says.

Alex was honored on Saturday April 17th at the Celebration of Science, Mathematics, and Technology Education, held at the Embassy Suites in Cary, NC. Please visit the Science, Mathematics, and Technology Education Center's website @ http://ncsmt.org/prog.awards.html to view a video celebrating Alex's accomplishments.