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"Alcorn State soccer captain earns statewide auto scholarship"
"Photo: Alcorn State University"
She captains Alcorn State's soccer team, and she is training to help design the cars of the future.
At Alcorn State, Ainara Aldeano studies biomedical engineering — and she is the university's recipient for the 2026-27 Mississippi Automotive Manufacturers Association scholarship. She is one of 11 students honored this year from seven Mississippi colleges and universities, a class carrying an average GPA of 3.84.
She came to Lorman already holding a degree from Spain's University of the Basque Country, in industrial electronics and automation, and she expects to finish a second degree at Alcorn in spring 2027. On a student racing team she worked on wiring diagrams and electronic controls for an electric car, and she has built an embedded system that uses artificial intelligence to classify movement and flag anomalies.
Her goal is a career putting embedded systems, electronic controls and artificial intelligence to work in auto manufacturing, toward vehicles that are safer, smarter and more efficient. The association behind the scholarship has put more than $495,000 into Mississippi students since 2006.
"When we invest in these students, we are investing in Mississippi's future," Skip Scaggs, president of the Mississippi Automotive Manufacturers Association, said.
Photo: Alcorn State University
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