Our Mission

The WEX Foundation is named in honor of Judge Waldo E. Ximenes, an unwavering proponent of educational opportunity for the disenfranchised.

The WEX Foundation (WEX) was established to promote, encourage, and support the convergence of Space STEM education as applied to new visions of human space exploration, beginning with K-12 grade education and curriculum development. Its focus is to improve STEM teaching and student comprehension in areas where students have been traditionally under-served and under-represented (with special emphasis on female and Hispanic students in low-income school districts), and to prepare and encourage low-income, first-generation college students to pursue higher education and careers in human space exploration.

WEX’s Vision is to foster an education path for historically under-represented constituents into the aerospace community through project-based curriculum using the latest information available in space science and space exploration. Our goal is to provide all students with the latest information on the advancement in topics such as the universe, manned and unmanned space exploration, spaceflight, space vehicles, launch systems, space operations, space missions, as well as the history of astronomy and the study of the Earth, the Sun, the Moon, the Solar System, and the terrestrial and outer planets.

The foundation will serve diverse populations in fulfilling its purposes, and participate in activities reasonably necessary to carry out such purposes.