{"id":193842,"date":"2026-03-06T21:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T21:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/193842\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T21:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T21:30:10","slug":"borderland-idea-students-win-utep-excellence-scholarships-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/193842\/","title":{"rendered":"Borderland IDEA students win UTEP Excellence scholarships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Several Borderland students from two IDEA high schools were surprised with scholarships to go to the University of Texas at El Paso on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Seven students from IDEA Rio Vista and two from IDEA Mesa Hills were given the UTEP Excellence Scholarship award, a recognition IDEA said celebrates students&#8217; academic achievements. <\/p>\n<p>According to IDEA, as part of the scholarship, some students receive up to $2,000 per year for four years, totaling $8,000 to support the pursuit of their degree.<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/youth-opera-of-el-paso-to-premiere-new-childrens-opera?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Youth Opera of El Paso to premiere new children\u2019s opera<\/a><\/p>\n<p>KFOX14\/CBS4 spoke with one of the honored students from Rio Vista, as well as a teacher, who both said they are really excited. <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;I think it&#8217;s that these students did the hard work and it certainly paid off for them,&#8221; said AP English Teacher Matthew Mundem. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s amazing and it shows what a great job the teachers here at IDEA Rio Vista are doing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"AP English Teacher Matthew Mundem from IDEA Rio Vista. March 5, 2026. Credit: KFOX14\/CBS4\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1772832610_354_53ea1611-cb38-4242-95c4-7f1dae04e74e-0305IDEAStudentsReceieveScholarship_0001_frame_1672.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>AP English Teacher Matthew Mundem from IDEA Rio Vista. March 5, 2026. Credit: KFOX14\/CBS4<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Mundem stated that he can already imagine the students who will get the scholarship next year, adding that he believes that there will be more than seven from Rio Vista.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m so happy and proud and excited to be a future miner,&#8221; Student and scholarship recipient Lyla Alvarez said, adding that she had no clue she won and was genuinely surprised this morning. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Seven students from IDEA Rio Vista receive the UTEP Excellence Scholarship. March 5, 2026. Credit: KFOX14\/CBS4\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1772832610_728_58892096-e54c-4f03-a21b-41d754ffdc24-0305IDEAStudentsReceieveScholarship_0001_frame_33.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Seven students from IDEA Rio Vista receive the UTEP Excellence Scholarship. March 5, 2026. Credit: KFOX14\/CBS4<\/p>\n<p>Below is the list of the recipients:<\/p>\n<p> IDEA Rio Vista College Preparatory<\/p>\n<p>Leticia SoriaEdgar Mu\u00f1oz-RegaladoLyla AlvarezDamaris Leon MartinezPaulina GamaLeslie HernandezMariano Melendez-Chao<\/p>\n<p>IDEA Mesa Hills College Preparatory<\/p>\n<p>Manuel RubioMelissa Jauregui<\/p>\n<p>Last week, IDEA said that two students from the Edgemere campus, Eliana Lopez and Luis Avalos, were surprised and honored with scholarships as well.<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/utep-unveils-plan-to-restore-campus-arroyo-into-natural-park?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">UTEP unveils plan to restore campus arroyo into natural park <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The IDEA Rio Vista campus is located at 210 N. Rio Vista Rd. in Socorro.<\/p>\n<p>The IDEA Mesa Hills is located at 405 Wallenberg Dr. in West El Paso. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Several Borderland students from two IDEA high schools were surprised with scholarships to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-193842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}