“…This is particularly true in West Texas, which is home to marginalized (American Indian) and underserved (Tejan@) communities within a largely rural setting (Thiede et al, 2018). Current research no longer explores why Hispanic students are not completing a STEM degree but rather why Hispanic students are not choosing a STEM-based future in the first place (Hunt et al, 2014;Wang, 2012). Several scholars have cited 'family influences' as being vitally important to whether or not students, especially rural Hispanic (Aschbacher et al, 2010;Grimes et al, 2019;Hite et al, 2018) and White (Miller and Votruba-Drzal, 2013;Prakash, 2017) females are not choosing STEM futures.…”