Robert
Hernandez is a current Freshman studying Computer Science and Japanese at the
University of California, Berkeley. He was born and raised in Salinas,
California where he attended elementary through high school. Through
doing track and field, competing and winning the robotics olympics at
a local community college, and through support programs such as RISE(recruitment
in science education), he gained the opportunity to achieve the Berkeley
Incentive Awards, a full-ride scholarship to attend Berkeley. Currently, he is
part of HES (hispanic engineering and science) and PDP (professional
development program) to improve his networking for more engineering
opportunities, and hopes that the
Tapia conference experience and further that, along with the
help through ELA(EL Alliance).