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.

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.

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. 

Alongside friends, colleagues, and sponsors, CienciaPR celebrated its first Noche de Ciencia Boricua on October 24. The event highlighted the most notable achievements of the organization since its foundation as a community in 2006. The activity also served to officially welcome the new executive director of the organization, Dr. Greetchen Díaz Muñoz, who took office in September 2024.