It all started with a simple "me-too" complex for Dr. Amelito Enriquez.
When he was growing up in Novaliches, he wanted to be many things: a priest, an athlete and eventually an engineer just because his older siblings had the same aspirations and they told him he couldn’t be any of these.
“Everyone’s telling me you can’t do this, you can’t do that. The more people tell me I can’t do something, the more I want to do it,” said Dr. Enriquez.
After earning a degree in geodetic engineering at the University of the Philippines, he worked for a big company for 6 months before quitting to start a business with his friends.
Teaching was something he did on the side. Today, this accidental teacher is invited to the White House to receive the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring.
It’s been 17 years since he decided to make a difference in the lives of students at Cañada College in Redwood City, a job he took after earning his doctorate at the University of California in Irvine.
The bigger universities he said, wanted its professors to focus on research, but he only wanted to teach.
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