Working along side the local host organization, the Puerto Rico RIL conducted a student engagment activity around resposne during a humanitarian emergency. Here is an excerpt:
“Puerto Rican students enrolled in public schools Naranjito, Las Piedras and Adjuntas won the top prizes of the “Resuélvelo Boricua” student competition, sponsored by the STEM Education Program, in collaboration with the Response Innovation Lab, both Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust programs.
The competition consisted of preparing prototypes to address four vital areas in response to or recovery from natural or man-made disasters; these included: food security; water; energy; and quality of access to health.
The winning projects and schools were: “Boricuapónico,” by Rubén Rodríguez Figueroa School in Naranjito, which took first place; “Agricultural Literacy,” by the Ramón Power y Giralt School in Las Piedras, which nabbed second place; and “Temperantia” by the Bernandino Cordero Bernard Vocational High School in Adjuntas, which took third place.
Each team will receive cash prizes aimed at the development, commercialization or distribution of their inventions; in addition to support and mentoring in the process by the Response Innovation Lab, an office that is part of the Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust, dedicated to the dissemination of solutions designed for community well-being in emergency situations.”
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