* The Governor presents the State Award for Science and Technology to distinguished researchers
Xalapa, Issue, September 26, 2023.- In an environment of dialogue and knowledge exchange with basic and high school students, Governor Cuitlahuac García Jiménez inaugurated the Second Veracruz State Science and Technology Week 2023 at the Cana Science and Technology Museum in the state capital.
In the presence of girls, boys and young people interested in knowledge, the President asked questions about the first astronomical theories and who postulated them. He also distributed school packages and books to the primary school students who answered correctly, in addition to a telescope for the Student.high school.
Previously, he presented the State Prize for Science and Technology, in the field of Biology and Chemistry, to María Luisa Martínez Vázquez; Medicine and Health Sciences, María Leonor López Meraz; Humanities and Behavioral Sciences, Jesera Jacqueline Dorantes Carrión; Social and Economic Sciences, Amanda Cano Ruiz; Biotechnology and Agricultural Sciences, Lourdes Georgina Iglesias Andrew; Engineering, Efren Misora Montes, and Multidisciplinary, Noe Aguilar Rivera.
In his speech, the Director General of the Veracruz Council for Scientific Research and Technological Development, Darwin Mayorga Cruz, affirmed the government’s commitment to encourage, encourage and promote science and technology, in order to awaken scientific vocations from an early age and with that critical and emancipatory thinking that society requires.
He considered knowledge a powerful factor for change in light of the current challenging challenges, “despite the necessity of thinking about the communication that we want to establish, and striving to transform our world for the common good, based on the language of justice and fairness.” Understanding.”, leaving aside the imposition of commandments.
For all these reasons the motto of this second edition is: Dialogue for peace, science unites usMore than 70 workshops and 25 different major exhibitions and conferences will be organized with local and international speakers, which will be replicated in Tantuuca, Gutierrez Zamora, Misantla, Beirut, Coatzacoalcos, San Andres Tuxtla, Cosamaloapan and Huatusco.
Children’s representative, Progreso Elementary School student Lenalee Natsumi Jiménez Dominguez, expressed her thanks for organizing this space where they play and live with classmates from other schools, “learning in a fun way about science, technology and development.” Understand, discover and enjoy the world around us.”
In the Presidency were the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Higher Secondary Education, Jorge Miguel Oscanja Villalba, and the Chairman of the Education Committee of the local Congress, Representative Elia Dolores Escobar Martinez; While various universities, technological institutes, colleges and government agencies are joining this event.
