Alumnus named finalist for national tech awards

Joshua Silver, chief of staff for Las Cruces Public Schools, was named a national finalist in spring 2024 for the EdTech Leadership Award and the EdTech Trendsetter Award.

The EdTech Awards is the world’s largest recognition program for education technology, and recognizes people for their outstanding contributions in transforming education through technology.

Since 2020, Silver and his team at LCPS worked to build a student technician program that gives students internship opportunities and helps them learn valuable skills.

Silver also organized and hosted the Impact 24 regional technology conference for educators in southern New Mexico, and created one of the only film festivals in New Mexico – the Tell the Story Film Showcase – that highlights student-produced films.

Silver has a bachelor’s degree in secondary education and teaching and master’s degrees in curriculum and instruction, and business administration and management.