Within the framework of the V National Encounter of Programmes for the Encouragement of Mexican Talent, organized by the Veracruzano Council of Scientific Research and Technological Development and the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACyT), the general director of Technological Innovation Park (PIT, Parque de Innovación Tecnológica) of the Autonomous University of Sinaloa (UAS, Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa), MBA José Ramón López Arellano, unveiled the proposal elaborated for the Encouragement to Scientific and Technological Vocations in Mexican Children and Youths Programme call.

The event took place at Veracruz port, the 8^th, 9^th, and 10^th of June this year. Over 93 executers of programmes for the encouragement to scientific vocation attended, each one of them is member of one of the 65 institutions belonging to 27 entities of the country. The PIT-UAS general director introduced the proposal to carry out the Science, Technology and Innovation Camp: TechnoCamp 2016, which will take place at UAS in September.

The project is an initiative created by PIT-UAS and takes part of the UAS’ Encouragement to University Innovation Programme, that in 2015 gathered over 350 students, professionals and private sector members, in order to provide them specialized training.

So as to provide a direct interaction to a diversity of scientific-technological areas to a larger number of students from high school, university and postgraduate levels, TechnoCamp establishes a strategy that looks forward to enhance the scientific vocation by offering a practical formation and a straight relation with applied research within the exact science fields.

According to MSc Martín Wincour, Linkage Director at CONACyT, during the V Encounter: «The programmes that take part in this event are able to awake and develop abilities that will allow the youths to become analytical observers, critical and efficient entrepreneurs, and also possess a better and greater understanding of natural phenomena, which will grant them the key to explain the what and the why from their everyday environment… In short, we want to teach them how to analyse on the basis of the scientific method», he highlighted.

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