- 12 de mayo de 2021
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COTACYT CONGRATULATES UT MATAMOROS RECTOR FOR HER GREAT PROMOTION OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY.
In order to present the results obtained during the last twelve months, the Matamoros Regional Committee for the Promotion of Science, Technology and Innovation met this Friday morning at a convention center south of the city.
Arnoldo de la Garza, director of the Tamaulipas Council of Science and Technology (Cotacyt), said that when making a comparison between 2016 and 2017, «today there was an increase of 35 percent in the participation of students both at the basic level and at the intermediate and higher levels.»
This, he explained, with the presentation of projects that not only stood out at local or state level but also at a national and international level, «various prototypes that have to do with the use of new technologies that today has become a global trend».
It is something that is no longer slowing down, he said, it is something beneficial, because everything that has to do with Science and Technology and Innovation, is something that leads to economic development, to economic growth, which at the end of the day is what is needed, generation of jobs and generation of wealth.
And in that sense, he said, I want to congratulate the rector of the UT of Matamoros and regional president of this Regional Committee for the Promotion of Science and Technology and Innovation, Dr. Ivett Bermea Vázquez, «because together with her professors she has done a very good job by motivating and presenting projects at all levels at the regional level», highlighting of course the participation of her students with the recent first place nationally in Robotics and who will soon represent our country in the State of Kentuky, United States,» he said.
Her promotion, he reiterated, has motivated more children and young students to enroll in the calls that Cotacyt continuously issues in the Creativity and Technological Innovation Contests, as does Dr. Maria Elena Flores Montalvo, head of the Regional Center for Educational Development in this same city.
It is important to inform that the Committee is made up of middle and high school teachers and the Regional President of this Committee is Dr. Ivett Bermea Vázquez.
