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STEM Scholars as Leaders

STEM Scholars at TCU positively contribute to the community around them as they employ their time and talents on campus and beyond the borders of the TCU campus.

Leading at TCU

STEM Scholars join and lead student organizations on campus, and several have founded their own. Here are some examples:

  • BETWEEN: an inclusive and safe space for people who identify as multicultural and/or multiracial
  • Black Student Association
  • Connections
  • Frogs First Leaders
  • Kappa Epsilon Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc.
  • MAPS – Minority association premed students
  • Monday at TCU student speaker
  • National Society of Black Engineers
  • Radio DJ and Producer at KTCU FM 88.7
  • Rising LeadersSociety of Hispanic Professional Engineers
  • Society of Women Engineers
  • Sigma Lambda Alpha Sorority Inc.
  • The Society for Advancement of Chicanos & Native Americans in Science

STEM Scholars have also founded a line dancing club and a chess club on campus.

Leading in the Community

Molding Melanin Magic is a mentoring program established by STEM Scholar Kayla Thomas to empower and support minority females as they embark on their careers in the STEM field.

Molding Melanin Magic is a mentoring program established by STEM Scholar Kayla Thomas to empower and support minority females as they embark on their careers in the STEM field.

Since the program’s inception in 2018, STEM Scholars have made a big impact with their community service. They have mentored other aspiring STEM students, volunteered with a wide variety of community organizations, founded their own nonprofits, and more. For example, Kayla Thomas, part of the first cohort of STEM Scholars, started a mentoring organization that helps underrepresented minority women interested in STEM prepare for college.

Leading Through Internships

STEM Scholars put their impressive knowledge to work at companies such as Bell Textron Inc., Lockheed Martin Corporation, General Electric, Fort Worth ISD and several DFW-area medical clinics. Whether designing jet engines, tutoring students, healing patients or developing IT software, these students are making a positive impact on the world around them.