Nearly a decade ago, Montgomery County Public Schools, Montgomery College and the Universities at Shady Grove – with its nine university partners – teamed up to launch a joint program in several high schools across the county to help make the dream of college and attainment of a bachelor’s degree more possible for thousands of students from historically underrepresented demographic groups.
That program – ACES, which stands for “Achieving Collegiate Excellence and Success” – has since served more than 7,500 students and in the past few years, some of the first bachelor’s degree graduates have emerged from university programs at USG.
Six of those graduates recently shared some of their perspectives in a series of “My ACES Story” video vignettes. Here are their stories.
Ms. Pierre-Louis
Digital Media and Web Techology Graduate
University of Maryland Global Campus
Jorge Torres
Biological Sciences Graduate
University of Maryland, College Park
Larisa Ketcha
Biological Sciences Graduate
University of Maryland, College Park
Aristides Villatoro
Criminology and Criminal Justice Graduate
University of Maryland, College Park
Sara Ruiz Smith
Accounting Graduate
University of Maryland, College Park - R.H. Smith School of Business
Anthony Canales
Marketing Graduate
University of Maryland, College Park - R.H. Smith School of Business