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'Kendrick Castillo' Scholarship Established At School Of Mines
Engineering scholarship awarded to honor student slain in STEM School shooting.
GOLDEN, Colo. (CBS4)– The victim in the May 7 school shooting in Highlands Ranch was honored at the Colorado School of Mines graduation on Friday. Kendrick Castillo, who charged a gunman in class at STEM School Highlands Ranch and saved the lives of classmates, was interested in engineering.
Students say they felt a bond with Kendrick, who was involved in robotics and worked with designers at Lockheed Martin.
That’s where Peter Moschetti came in.
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He contacted fellow electrical engineering students, “I texted, hey we are going to take Kendrick on stage with us and within an hour or two we had a sticker and we were getting ready to print it.”
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