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Santiago Potes graduated from Columbia University last year. He ll begin his master s degree as a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford in October.
Santiago Potes was the first Latino DACA recipient among 32 Americans to receive the Rhodes Scholarship last year one of the oldest and most prestigious international scholarship programs in the world. It allows college students to study at Oxford University in England.
Santiago Tobar Potes was in second grade when he started the gifted program at Sweetwater Elementary School. His now retired Miami-Dade County Public School teacher, Marina Esteva, organized a variety of subjects to be taught in the program like archeology, Egyptian mythology and the basics, like math, science, and reading.