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Científicos Al Servicio: Transforming education by connecting students with local scientific talent

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San Juan, May 20, 2025 - More than 22,000 Puerto Rican students benefited from the Científicos Al Servicio program, an educational initiative of Ciencia Puerto Rico (CienciaPR) that promotes the active participation of experts in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) in science education in the country, in its virtual and on-site modality, culminated with great success in its most recent editions.

Role models and mentors in schools

L'Oreal Caribe and Ciencia Puerto Rico graduate 18 young women in their program For Girls In Science

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San Juan, Puerto Rico – L'Oréal Caribe and Ciencia Puerto Rico (CienciaPR) celebrated the third graduation of the For Girls in Science program, an initiative that provides tools and academic mentoring to young women to gain admission to university programs in STEM. In this edition, 18 high school students successfully completed the program, which culminated in a graduation ceremony at the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico. This ceremony featured the special participation of Deborah Martorell, who will soon become the first meteorologist to travel to space, who shared a message about perseverance and vocation, encouraging young women to claim their space in science.

New CienciaPR board members make their debut

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Composed of leaders in science, engineering, entrepreneurship, and finance, five experts committed to the mission of Ciencia Puerto Rico have joined together to form the organization's new board of directors.

They are Jorge L. Colón, Angiemille Latorre, Kevin M. Alicea Torres, Nahir González and Cristina Grillasca, who will have a fiduciary role in protecting the mission and vision of our organization by providing strategic advice to ensure its continuity.

 

 

 

A spring with Seeds of Success

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Three months ago we kicked off our first chapter of Semillas de Triunfo outside of Puerto Rico: Seeds of Success in the city of New Haven in Connecticut.

Since then the participating girls have had many learnings, particularly exploring science through our collaboration with Yale University.

Reaffirming Our Commitment to Science, Equity, and Inclusion

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To our beloved CienciaPR community:

 

Science plays a fundamental role in our well-being and quality of life. Innovation and research drive economic growth and generate solutions to social and environmental problems, among many others. Science education fosters critical thinking and creativity, and careers in these fields help break cycles of poverty and open doors to a wide range of job and leadership opportunities.

 

Abniel Machín de Jesús becomes new science education director

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Dr. Abniel Machín de Jesús' history with Ciencia Puerto Rico began a little more than a decade ago, when, before pursuing his master's degree and completing his first doctorate, he worked as a volunteer intern between 2013 and 2014.

Semillas de Triunfo launches second chapter in Connecticut

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CienciaPR's executive director Greetchen Díaz Muñoz always dreamed of growing Semillas de Triunfo, one of the organization's flagship programs, outside of Puerto Rico. This past Saturday, January 25, 2025, ten years after founding the program, her yearning to create seedbeds of student leaders in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) in other regions was fulfilled with the launch of the second chapter of Semillas de Triunfo in New Haven, Connecticut, known as Seeds of Success-New Haven.

Seeds of Success-New Haven is being conducted in collaboration with Yale University. It is being led there by Carolina Machado, project manager, and Giovanna Guerrero Medina, former executive director of CienciaPR and now a senior advisor to the organization. 

Scientists from our community elected to SACNAS Board of Directors

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Ciencia Puerto Rico congratulates Dr. Giovanna Guerrero Medina, former executive director of CienciaPR and Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the Wu Tsai Institute at Yale, and Dr. Ingrid Montes, Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, election to the Board of Directors of the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos, Hispanics, and Native Americans in Science, known as SACNAS. Drs. Guerrero Medina and Montes began their three-year terms (the second term for Dr.

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