Dollars for Profs

Dig Into University Researchers' Outside Income and Conflicts of Interest

Published Dec. 6, 2019

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Financial doc
Filing Type

Financial Disclosure

The University of Texas System provided all data on outside professional activity of faculty and staff from all campuses from 2016 to 2019. All university employees are required to disclose outside work or activities, which are reviewed for potential conflicts of interest and conflicts of commitment.

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Maria Hernandez

University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Department: Ctr for Mfg Tx Mfg Asst Ctr

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FIRST RGV

Listed Reason

Vice President of FIRST RGV. I help with the coordination of FIRST Robotics Competitions in the Rio Grande Valley. This is a regional initiative that helps promote STEM to our students in the Valley. It also serves as way to recruit High School students to consider attending the UTRGV College of Engineering and Computer Science. It also helps our UTRGV College of Engineering and Computer Science student organizations to be able to serve as mentors, collaborate with the schools, get an opportunity to serve volunteer hours, and also fundraise monies to be able to help them with them cover their conference costs. It is a way to engage the RGV students with partners like UTRGV and STC to consider higher education degrees. FIRST provides a lot of scholarship money that our students can apply for and be able to attend schools like UTRGV, UTSA, and UT Austin. FIRST RGV is local chapter under FIRST in Texas. FIRST in Texas is part of US FIRST from New Hampshire and par of FIRST International.

Additional Comments

This is a seasonal Robotics competition that serves Kinder through 12th grade. There are 4 different programs FLL Jr. that is Kinder-3rd grade, FLL 4-8 grade, FTC 8-12 grade, and FRC 9-12 grade that host their competitions starting in September and ending in March when all teams start to advance up to state and then world competitions. Are league meets and qualifiers are done on Saturdays.

Filed on February 06, 2018.

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Name Institution Type Company Disclosed Value
Maria Hernandez University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Financial Disclosure South Texas Juvenile Diabetes Association
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