Within the framework of the 22nd National Week of Science and Technology of the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACyT, Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología), students from the academic unit PhD Salvador Allende High School of the Autonomous University of Sinaloa (UAS, Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa) visited the facilities of the Technological Innovation Park (PIT, Parque de Innovación Tecnológica) with the purpose of knowing the different Park’s areas where a wide variety of multidisciplinary projects can be developed.

The group was integrated by around forty students, who were divided in two different groups, on charge of the professor Emigdio Urrea. The young visitors were received by one of the PIT-UAS’ operative coordinators, MSc IT Rogelio Prieto Alvarado, who at the beginning talked to them about the objective and the functions of this university organism, in order to later begin a guided tour by the facilities.

First were shown the areas of Projects Development, Robotics Laboratory, 3D Printing, among others. In such points, was explained to the students, are facilitated both spaces and expert attention by researchers, for the training that may be necessary during the current researches taking place at the PIT-UAS.

In the course of the students’ visit, which was used to invite them to participate in the development of projects and its subscription through the Park, Prieto Alvarado outlined that the PIT-UAS is focused on the strengthening of Sinaloa’s technological capabilities in essential fields of knowledge, from the strategic transversal platform represented by the information and communication technologies.

Thus, this university research center makes its contribution to 2015 edition of the National Week of Science and Technology, one of which objectives is precisely awaking the interest by scientific and technological disciplines among children and youth, through the approach of this particular public to the different actors of science and technology in our country (scientists, popularizers, researchers, entrepreneurs, technologists and authorities).

Written by Moroni Arellano (Communication and Diffusion, PIT-UAS), translated by Belem Ruiz (Edition and Communication, PIT-UAS).