Alum Ashley Menendez

At the Petroleum Equipment & Services Association (PESA) annual meeting last month in Georgia, Ashley Menendez spoke on behalf of current and former students of the IPAA/PESA high school petroleum academies. Ashley was a 2013 graduate of Southwest High School in Fort Worth, Texas, graduating as salutatorian and class president. Her high school externship was with EOG Resources. Menendez will graduate this month from Howard University in Washington, D.C., where she majored in chemical engineering.