CILE 2016

El Yunque y su diversidad

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This essay by Melissa Cabrera Ruíz, a high school student at the Centro Residencial de Oportunidades Educativas de Mayagüez (CROEM), won first place in the national science essay competition of the International Congress of the Spanish Languague (CILE 2016). The essay discusses the biodiversity of El Yunque the only tropical rainforest in the U.S. Forest System.

You can read the full essay in Spanish by clicking on ESPAÑOL at the top right of your screen.

Viva, Science in Spanish!

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Last week Ciencia Puerto Rico took part in the VII International Congress of the Spanish Language (CILE 2016). Through a historical collaboration CienciaPR and CILE celebrated that for the first time science had a prominent role in this Congress, the largest and most important celebration of the Spanish-language. CienciaPR and CILE collaborated in the evaluation of science essays for a national science essay competition and in the participation in an international colloquium about the Spanish language and science.

You can read the full version of this blog in Spanish by clicking on ESPAÑOL at the top right of your screen.

CienciaPR and CILE celebrate science in Spanish

Submitted on 9 March 2016 - 2:51pm

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CienciaPR and the 7th International Spanish Language Congress (CILE, in Spanish), happening in Puerto Rico from March 11-19, 2016. 

Among the activities the organizations are collaborating in are a scientific essay competition for high school students and an international colloquium about science communication.

 

You can read the full version of this article in Spanish.

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