NMSU workshop shares STEM resources with Mexico teachers

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (KRQE) – Teachers from Cuidad Juárez, Mexico, visited the New Mexico State University (NMSU). They attended a STEM-centered (science, technologies, engineering, math) workshop.

Chemical and Materials Engineering Professor Eliseo De León helped hold the workshop, which focused on the scientific method. Middle-school educators were shown experiments that deploy the scientific method to everyday tasks or encounters.

“Our objective is that when the children observe this, when the children get to participate in this kind of behavior, they, number one, learn about the scientific process. Number two, and maybe even more important than number one, they learned that science is something that is all around us. Science is what you do every day,” said De León.

Not only were the visitors given STEM-related exercises for their students, but they also learned about the Descubre Program . The program enables Mexican citizens to study at NMSU with “reduced international student tuition fees.”

“Let’s face it, they’re neighbors,” De León said. “So, all we’re doing is welcoming our neighbors.”

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