The Presidential Award is a special recognition of all the work and effort that I put forth day to day to have a positive impact on my students through mathematics. It also reaffirms the fact that my teaching vocation is genuine and one which I enjoy to the fullest. This award is a testament to the positive results obtained through years of hard work and dedication to my students.

Lourdes Zegrí San Juan, PR | K-6, Mathematics, 2022

The official biography below was current at the time of the award.

Lourdes M. Zegrí-Prieto, best known as Teacher Luli, has been a mathematics teacher at Academia San Ignacio de Loyola for 17 years. During her tenure, she has taught fifth and sixth grade mathematics, but exclusively sixth grade most recently. Lourdes has spent her entire teaching career at Academia San Ignacio. In 2012, Lourdes organized and hosted an intercollegiate mathematics competition for sixth grade students and invited several neighboring schools. She also holds a yearly Math Bee for fourth to sixth grade students during her school's Math Week. As a sixth grade homeroom teacher, Lourdes coordinates the sixth grade graduation and class activities every May. Teaching mathematics was always Lourdes' dream and fostering a love of mathematics and connecting it to her students' daily lives is her goal each school year. Lourdes has a B.A., magna cum laude, in elementary education from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. She is a certified fourth to sixth grade mathematics teacher.

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