Four-day STEM Event Wraps Up (video link below) 

 A four-day annual event came to a close Sunday morning.

Anxiously awaiting the awards ceremony, high school students gathered at the Student Center Ballroom at TAMIU. The event promotes science, technology, engineering, and math through a combination of lectures, activities, and even a robotics competition. Over 20 groups of high school students from across South Texas competed by creating robots that would rescue a man left behind in mars. Congressman Henry Cuellar who helped coordinate the event presented the awards. He says he hopes events like this help stimulate interest in these fields. "If you look at our young folks, if you look at the Hispanic population, it's growing very fast. But, if you look at the folks in the STEM fields, we're lagging behind as Hispanics. So, we have to make sure that we get our universities, our community colleges, our schools -- and they're doing that. But, we just have to double-down and get more, because we're lagging across the nation."

The top three teams who won the robotics competition will be headed to STEM summer camps at several Texas universities.