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This 11-Year-Old Peruvian Created His Own Bank, Which Now Has 2,000 Clients

Frances Solá-Santiago — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 15:53:57 +0000

Most 11-year-olds enjoy the pleasantries of elementary school without taking much time to worry about personal finances. But at 11, José Adolfo Quisocala Condori, a Peruvian kid from Arequipa, is already a banking whiz. At just 7 years old, Quioscala started Banco del Estudiante Bartselana, a cooperative bank that both helps students save money and

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12-Year-Old Mexican Boy to Become First Kid to Study Biomedical Physics at UNAM

Remezcla Estaff — Fri, 03 Aug 2018 14:49:38 +0000

At 12 years old, most of us were adjusting to middle school and worrying about BO. At 12, Carlos Antonio Santamaría Díaz’s life is looking a little different. The young Mexican savant will begin studying biomedical physics at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, becoming the first child to accomplish this at the university. RELATED:

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8-Year-Old Who Built Solar Water Heater Is First Kid to Win This Mexican Science Award

Remezcla Estaff — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 22:31:03 +0000

At 8 years old, Xóchitl Guadalupe Cruz López is making history in Mexico. The third-grader has become the first child to win the Reconocimiento ICN a la Mujer from the Instituto de Ciencia Nuclear de Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), an award usually given to adults. The budding scientist from the Altos de Chiapas first

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At Just 16 Years Old, This Mexican Prodigy Earned Her Master’s Degree in Psychology

Remezcla Estaff — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 22:51:48 +0000

At age 16, you may not yet have chosen a career path. But for Dafne Almazán, her 16th year is when she became the youngest person to earn a master’s degree in psychology. Dafne actually became the world’s youngest psychologist in 2015 at age 13 after she received her degree from the Instituto Tecnológico y

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This 20 Year-Old Student Might Be the First Mexican on Mars

Andrew S. Vargas — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 22:41:36 +0000

It may not be a great idea for a Mexican citizen to be running around the deserts of the southwest in a conspicuous pressurized suit, but in the case of 20-year-old Yair Israel Piña López – who has been selected to by NASA to participate in a simulated Mars landing in the Utah this spring

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Meet the Only Latino to Receive a Prestigious Rhodes Scholarship This Year

Yara Simón — Mon, 21 Nov 2016 20:23:15 +0000

With 882 applicants going up for one of 32 coveted slots, the Rhodes Scholarship is extremely competitive. Despite the very low odds, Oscar De Los Santos received a scholarship to further his education at Oxford University. He plans to read for a master of public policy and a master of studies in theology at the UK university. De Los

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This Mexican College Robotics Team Just Owned a NASA Competition

Andrew S. Vargas — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 22:05:21 +0000

Fans of Donald Trump can officially start freaking out: Mexicans are invading the US space program. Well not in any official way, but a group of engineers from the UNAM have just taken the top prize at a robotics competition sponsored by NASA and Worcester Polytechnic Institute with a charming little robot named Rover. Under

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This Tween Wants to Be Our First Latina President & She Already Has Better Ideas Than Trump

Yara Simón — Fri, 29 Jul 2016 18:26:29 +0000

You wouldn’t expect an ~11-year-old girl to deliver one of the most rousing speeches in the same month that both the Democratic and Republican national conventions took place, but it’s exactly what Jaqueline Zuno did. The KIPP Academy West student discussed why society is better when people work together. So she talked about what she knew.

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Stanford-Bound Teen Pens Defiant Open Letter to the Dentist Who Shamed Him For Affirmative Action

Yara Simón — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 17:45:02 +0000

Affirmative action denouncers have no problem erasing the merits of those who, against the odds, make it. But certainly don’t come to Guillermo Pomarillo and pretend he got into Stanford on something as unmeasurable as luck. This week, the Chicago teen headed to the dentist for a dental cleaning. When asked if he wanted braces, he

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Mexican Teen Nicknamed #LordMatemáticas Looks to Win His 8th Math Olympics Medal

Carolina Dalia Gonzalez — Mon, 11 Jul 2016 19:26:56 +0000

Math can be a nightmare-inducing subject. I still get chills when I think about the unrelenting multiplication sheets I preferred to stuff away in my backpack as a third-grader. But Diego Hinojosa thinks math is for everyone. “Some people think that mathematics is for geniuses, but we are normal children,” he told El País. “Anyone

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