(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – Alexis Schoel of Yuba City, majoring in mechanical engineering at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, has earned a $5,000 Better Together STEM Scholarship, one of only sixty awarded this year from PG&E.

Alexis in the announcement notes they are “a first generation college student” and that the scholarship will give them “the opportunity to take more advanced courses and go on to be the first person in my family with a bachelor’s (and) help achieve all my future goals of becoming an engineer.”