This Thursday 29th September, within the framework of the federal call denominated Encouragement to Scientific Vocation in Mexican Children and Youths Programme, promoted by the National Council of Science and Technology (Conacyt, Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología), the rector of the Autonomous University of Sinaloa (UAS, Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa), PhD Juan Eulogio Guerra Liera, inaugurated together with the general director of the Technological Innovation Park (PIT), MBA José Ramón López Arellano, Science, Technology and Innovation Camp’s first edition, TecnoCamp 2016, an event that aims to boost scientific-technological vocations of Sinaloense youths of high schools and universities.

Diverse personalities attended to the event’s inauguration, directors of different academic units and representatives of science and technology in the state. Also attended over five hundreds of young university and high school talents belonging to different academic units of the entity, both UAS and other educative centres (Polytechnic University of Sinaloa, Jean Piaget del Río Institute, Sonora Institute of Technology, Los Mochis Technological Institute…).

The first day of activities started with three conferences imparted at the Multiple Usages Hall by doctors invited to the event, scientists and researchers of diverse areas of knowledge which work has national and international recognition: Ricardo Hugo Lira Saldívar (C principal investigator, Applied Chemistry Research Centre), José Martínez Carranza (Computing Sciences coordinator at the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics) and Ildefonso León Monzón (ALICE detector responsible at the European Centre for Nuclear Research).

Lecturers spoke to the attendees about themes related to industries of the future, like drones and nanotechnology, besides frontier research. By gathering these specialists so they can bring their message to young talents, PIT-UAS seeks to contribute to what is stipulated within the axis 2 of the Plan of Institutional Development Consolidation 2017, in the matter of carrying out the production, usage and distribution of knowledge by means of the strategy of motivating scientific spirit among student community. Next week we will publish video clips about these three lectures in our social networks.

Ultimately, is worth recalling some words said by López Arellano: «With events like TecnoCamp collective intelligence and scientific vocations are stimulated, so these youths become knowledge society’s catalyst». For his part, Guerra Liera emphasised: «… one of the greatest challenges for a country that aims to consolidate itself as a developed one is technological innovation, which marks the future we have in the same way higher education institutions do… At the Autonomous University of Sinaloa we want to express the alliance with the technological future, and it has been through institutions like Conacyt that we have been developing it».

Written by Moroni Arellano (Diffusion, PIT-UAS).

Translated by Belem Ruiz (Edition and Communication, PIT-UAS).