Six students recently received prizes in a national competition among participants in the IDRA Valued Youth Partnership program, a nationally-recognized cross-age tutoring program. The VYP tutors wrote about how the program helped them do better in school and how they had helped their tutees to do better.
Several winners were from Odessa High School.
- High School First Place Winner – Mariah Rodríguez,11th Grade, Odessa High School.
- High School Second Place Winner – Carly Oliver, 10th Grade, Odessa High School.
- High School Third Place Winner – Alina Lozano, 10th Grade, Odessa High School.
- Middle School First Place Winner – Michelle Ramos, 8th Grade, Abraham Kazan Middle School, San Antonio.
- Middle School Second Place Winner – Daynah Ramos, 8th Grade, Alan B. Shepard Middle School, San Antonio.
- Middle School Third Place Winner – Brianna Garza, 8th Grade, Alan B. Shepard Middle School, San Antonio.
