you ever wanted to be
astronauts like archie raise your hand
well we can already form a good team
let me tell you that if you measure less than
January 68 can simply throw out if dreams
unfortunately it is one of the
requirements to be an astronaut
no one likes to address anyone
I like to listen, you do not know, you should not,
can not mess
once when I was building a
lunar auto a specialist teacher
mechanics I wonder does he even know what
which is a tijeral by the way if you
I answered but that attempt
show me I’m not professional in
what am I doing and discourage more
continue with the construction
it made me realize that many of these
words and attitudes cut our wings
when we want to fly our
generation of students boys of 15
16 17 18 years old is not a specialist in
no professional but it turns out that
this given just at this age
the need arises to find our
own path and we are in a
crossroads which way we must choose
how can we even choose something if not
we have tested it
we need experience to get to
these answers and I had the
opportunity to find them when trying me
in different areas along these
17 years
from small to asia I went to classes of
dance where
some presentations was also
artist and had some exhibitions
own was also in cinema where
I directed my own shorts and participant
of a Bolivian movie music
also participates in some festivals
schoolboys olympics where I tried on
physics to physics astronomy
robotics sciences
I also learned some languages and
I took driving lessons as a great
adventure begins with a camp of
Summer in my case was also like this
the 15 years journey completely alone to
a summer camp in germany and in
the trip had to learn to do
things that I had never done in my life
and had to go through obstacles like in
a video game had to find the
correct terminal take the plane to
time to communicate with other people
to ask for directions
the German had to guide in a
foreign country and up to make an order
at mcdonald’s
if it is already complicated in English
imagine yourself in German
then the challenges continued in the
summer camp and there I learned to
do things of which not even
I knew extreme sports first like
kayak museum 4 skiing had to learn
to weld cut and polish metal and handle
other tools of which neither
I did not even know his name but he always
there is a first time to make a
Summer camp coach instead of
ask me if I know the functionality
of machines and tools
he gave me the instruments in his hands and
he taught me how to assemble the parts
no matter if I knew how to do it
because I was going to light on the road and this
attitude of confidence towards myself
I got a lot more sure and that summer of
2015
we made three lunar cars and I can say
I learned to drive a lunar car
before the car my parents
after all this experience so much
In Germany, as in Bolivia, they invited me
to be part of a team
international that would participate in the
competition roberts aviv and in 2016
I was the first Bolivian to attend
this challenge takes place in the
country where center enhancing alabama
and it consists of designing and building a
rover or lunar auto mechanic system
able to cross a path with
obstacles that simulates lunar soil
for example sand rocks craters and
mountains of cybele and platforms
inclined is basically a
simulation of what astronauts
they must pass when they are in others
planets and you will wonder how
looks a role
good is a car with four wheels 200
pedals but the designs vary according to
each team each division and each country
there was for example a rover extremely
sophisticated of the students of
ohio state and adapt intimidating that
one of our classmates said leaf
no longer earn us
luckily not a rover happened to look like
a quadratrack and the competition can
compare to a young dakar and more or
less so the competition takes place
the team that manages to complete all the
circuit in the shortest time is the one
wins and in 2016 together that I ate
team that we give the prize and it is common
what a striking web that is delivered to
best international team of all
competition
but to achieve this premium we had
have to work hard and we face several
challenges as an international team to
same as the challenges that our
Robert had to go on the track
the first big problem r language we have
to be in constant communication on
with each other and if our English does not
it was understood what happens frequently
we have to express in some way what
what we wanted
sometimes the coach would come and give us a
order and when he finished talking all
we were looking at each other and he said
so we have to ask ourselves what
you have understood to see already and we do as
a compilation compilation of everything
what others understood
We had a summary order and we met
homework
another big problem was the time there
times we stayed until two o’clock
or three in the morning joining roberts
in the workshop working as a team is part
of most projects but
let’s be honest our practice and
experience shows us that it is
complicated
takes time to make everything work the
coordination should be perfect and
everyone should contribute there is always
difficulties in distributing
chores
you have to make sure that everyone is
doing your duty correctly
we have to trust each other and
recognize if we failed to ask
help later we were like a
large family of seven students
nations and work was going pretty well
but sometimes it got complicated by
some things that were missing hotels
someone did not do his homework well but at
pass all these 80
we get them integrity that is one
of the four values that NASA manages
for any of your missions
I learned that if you are looking for people with their
same interests
You can get to do great things
work as a team with students of
different countries is my favorite part
of all the competition
as they say if you want to say fast of
sun but if you want to get away in
team which is a bit paradoxical
our case because we had to get there
fast and in a team so it
imagine how complicated it was but what
we achieve
after this experience in 2016
I decided to form the first team
Bolivian who would participate in this
leonard competition with own car
this meant that I had to assume a
new role that of the organizing leader and
Other responsibilities also do not
I hoped that this task was so
difficult because on the road I
I found people who do not know
work as a team and you can deduce
that for this reason the project was stopped
completely but despite this
stumbling block
I prepared myself this year to take it up again
more strength and with the new call
we receive many applications
the first task for my classmates
was to make a wheel design not
pneumatics
the funny thing is that these students are
computer physical psychologists and
to college students but look
these results none of them had
made a non-pneumatic wheel before
some maybe they did not even know what
that was but they accepted the challenge and they used
your own tools to meet the
task and that’s when I realized that
the innovation process
the important thing is creativity
there is no one who knows everything and I
I was in that situation I did not know much
of mechanics or technology but that’s not
I understood from you that that was not what
necessary to start because the spark
essential is creativity
I will give you an example some students of
uefa medicine in Russia in the years
80 that were not the best students nor
neither outstanding did they link
concepts of medicine in a way that
nobody had done before
they invented something completely new a
biomaterial based on sable skin of the
heels that can regenerate cells are
encouraged to think differently and not
They were afraid creativity does not depend
much of the amount of knowledge
I think it could be born from
the lack of it I mean that when not
we see limitations we are able to
do anything and this is what
happens to these students there was no
no one to tell them what they did
It was crazy or it had no basis
scientific or even logical
nobody was waiting for him with questions
prejudices or obstacles but art
It is also in meeting our goals
knowing the challenges we have for
front and based on our
basic knowledge and our
experiences we can solve
problems that we do not know thoroughly
we can intuit the answers that
they could have a high degree of success and
this is also thanks to logic if
we take an extreme situation or
survival you are in a situation
in which you are alone your intelligence
against adversity
intelligence is the ability to
use logic knowledge and you
creativity to find solutions and
if they are afraid to try and fail
agree that failure is not wrong year
happened when I attended the meeting of
players under 35 I heard the
director of the motto situates and chen gopin
schweens that the question to young people
specialists for interviews
work is the number of failures that
you and surprisingly among others
Selection parameters
choose the person who had many of
them in their scientific career and in
your projects because they believe that this
person has experience and listen
this latest news from silicon
valley the companies she decided
hire people who do not have a title
academic
so they started doing that because
they saw that people without a
classic conventional education achieve
link concepts in a way
different are self-taught people who
they reached the same result as a
person who studied at the university
but in another way and maybe this is what
that silicon valley is looking for
eye I ‘m not saying do not go to the
college
on the contrary they study more and if we
we go a thousand years ago
the people were self-taught because they did not
there were prestigious universities where
the scientific basis will be taught
as we know them today
they all sought knowledge at their
way and what is more important
they wanted to do it the knowledge has
to be free and in science has to
have creativity in each of
we could be asleep a great
movie director maybe a poet
romantic a dentist a lawyer
maybe an astronaut explores your world
internal and self-taught in different
subjects and subjects regardless of age or
the most substantial profession is
be realized in all aspects of being
and I think this is our true
purpose to know ourselves
do not be afraid to start dreaming
to create innovate they can always imitate
the steps of your example to follow but if
they are encouraged to be pioneers in something and
they do well the followed ones will be you
in each certainty there was an error in the race
and a learning but innovate also
involves taking risks that can lead
to difficulties but that’s not why they’re going to
stop
quite the opposite has to have the
enough confidence to know that
They can be overcome with their creativity with
his talent not when my story because
it’s exceptional but because it’s the
history of all those who seek the
way to achieve your goals and finished
with my favorite phrase, do not say that
the sky is the limit and traces in the
moon and very soon on Mars and you where
leave all this thanks
[Applause]
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