Southwest Alumna Speaks at NOIA Annual Meeting

Ashley Menendez, Southwest High School 2013 salutatorian and class president, and member of the IPAA/PESA petroleum academy at Southwest, spoke on April 5, 2017 at the annual meeting of the National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA) in Washington DC. Ashley spoke about her experience in the academy including her high school externship at EOG Resources in Fort Worth. Ashley expressed gratitude on behalf of all current and former petroleum academy students to NOIA and its member companies and other energy companies for their support of the IPAA/PESA Energy Education program. Ashley is a junior at Howard University in Washington DC majoring in chemical engineering. She is a member of an honors engineering fraternity Tau Beta Pie, President of the American Society of Chemical Engineers and involved with the National Society of Black Engineers, the Society of Women Engineers, and a robotics organization. She has completed a number of internship opportunities. One of her memorable internships involved research in nanotechnology at Cornell University and presenting her findings at a conference there as a part of the Particles of Reduced Dimensional Materials program. Another internship involved consulting for an IBM engineering department. Ashley’s aspirations after graduation are to be able to work with nanotechnology to make energy more economical.

NOIA - Ashley &Galen

NOIA - Ashley