Alex Jensen receives BHBF scholarship

The Hot Springs County Endowment Fund awarded the Big Horn Basin Foundation with a scholarship in May to pay for a local high school student from Hot Springs County to participate in the Big Horn Basin Foundation’s “Dinosaur Academy” Program.

After nominations from the science teachers, the Big Horn Basin Foundation chose Alex Jensen to participate in the program.

Jensen spent a week learning about geology and paleontology alongside five other participants from across the United States.

There were visits to dig sites at the Warm Springs Ranch and another dig site in northern Wyoming that was being excavated by the New Jersey State Museum and Drexel University. He also visited various formations in the Big Horn Basin, worked in the Prep Lab at the Wyoming Dinosaur Center and learned many other aspects of paleontology.

Jensen earned two earth science college credits from Central Wyoming College for completing the academy.

The cost of the program is $1,000.00 per person, which was entirely paid for by the Hot Springs County Endowment Fund.