Students from Mexico Win Top Spot at NASA's Mars Trekker Summit Mexico News Daily
go to original July 5, 2015

Mexican students at the Mars Trekker Summit (Excélsior)

Three Mexican students were winners at the first annual Mars Trekker Global Teen Summit held at the Space Center in Houston, Texas.

The three were among 120 participants aged 13 to 17, 20 of whom were from Mexico.

Javier Rivera Monter, 15, won the prize for robotics, Fatima Paola Vargas, 16, for the design of 3D printing tools for space and Yanet Josefina Guevara, 16, for human habitat design for outer space. All three are from the state of Tlaxcala.

The summit is a NASA program designed to seek out young talent to collaborate on future missions to the planet Mars.

The students are part of a pilot educational program called Youngsters for Space, sponsored by the Mexican Space Agency in collaboration with the Secretariat of Education of the state of Tlaxcala. Students participate in mathematics, astronomy, robotics and science clubs.

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