For me it is a healthy pleasure too
I would like to take the opportunity to greet all
who see us streaming on the internet
especially my wife and my daughter
jimena valeria already in minnesota very
honored to share this story with
I am a native of San Isidro del
General in San Isidro, the general
they began to deliver a series of
thoughts a series of ideas of child
about what I wanted you to do
can see in the image on the right a
original drawing of those ideas realizes
2008 1985 when I was 7 years old and I would like
highlight and two main components
that will guide the first two parts
of the presentation
one is a small sketch of an airplane and
the other is one of a rocket
I’ve always liked science and
the technology
I think partly inspired by my dad
that today accompanies us to casquero and from
that moment since my childhood
I said that I wanted to focus on
achieve those dreams that I had in my
head and that’s how it was in 1996
I managed to fulfill one of those first
dreams that was to become a pilot
aviator the first paradigm that can
break in that moment that more than anything
it’s a curiosity was that I got the
aviation student license before
to have the vehicle license which
They were pretty curious
paradoxically and in a symbolic way
in the image on the right
I would like to show you is one of the trips
in small plane that had to guanacaste that
mark the beginning of the second part the
story but to start trying
tell them the full story in these
fifteen minutes that I have
would like to go back to the year 1997 in the year
1997 I was in the third year of
mechanical engineering was a young man who
He wore the hat walked consulted
notebooks and the calculator and I wanted
work in the nasa wanted to work in
in rockets
just as I had raised it from
that he was a boy he left the university and
I was going to touch doors
to various government institutions
to see if they could help me in that dream
to see if we could provide something for
to achieve that which had always been
desired especially because there was
many mental limitations and also
in part I needed some support
economic to be able to do that internship
imagine what it was like to see a
game reach the institutions
saying that he wanted to go to the nasa in 1997
I had the whole spectrum of
reactions that you can
imagine in the faces of people is
laugh
from that country and quake of amazement between
many others
in those years and since 1986 as well as
many others and how adolfo shared it
in our first display at the beginning
he was one of those children who was inspired
by giving a frank work in cham bullock
aaa for the work of franklin chang
I wrote him a letter and 1986 sister
answered one of the curiosities that I
I realized later it was that he answered
many letters to many children in this
country but then through mail
electronic I told him I wanted
participate in your project in houston and
he told me literally that that was something
that he had always had at the bar
but that you had to work at the level
local in costa rica already had some
that work done as he had them
commented
so I persistently followed
trying to achieve that dream
of course with the help of many
real people of the chan family with
my family’s help including here
is my arturo uncle who was one of the
that in the beginning he supported me so that
I got that dream and in the year 2000
I receive a memorandum from the ministry of
science and technology saying that I
had approved the funds to be able
perform that internship there in the nasa and
Thus it was that in 2001 although
Four years have passed since the first
I had the great opportunity to work with
a group of scientists a group of
engineers in lan
house for me was a complete revelation
my eyes opened because I realized
that skills and knowledge
he had obtained in the in
Costa Rican public institutions
because I was always institutions
public was enough to be able
interact with them nor is it the
laboratory
of course my experience was less than
the one they had but because of their
mentoring culture among other things I
they allowed me to feel incorporated and there
I realized that really the
limitations that we sometimes have
we are limitations created with
ourselves and mentally
subsequently at 3 rocket company
that was the company that don franklin
decided to found he decides to establish
operations in Guanacaste in the year 2006
we had a pretty start up operations
aggressive tearing a plant from scratch
have it ready in six months but the
more highest goal we had in
that year was to achieve the first shot of
plasma of the engine you go me in those
facilities in guanacaste liberia is
beautiful
We are in the middle of a farm surrounded by
protect yourself forgiveness of animals from
nature of beautiful sunsets but
that does not take away all the challenges that
we had from a perspective of
human resources a perspective of
logistics logically was muller has been
much easier to start an operation
of these in the central valley and effort
of the paradigms that could break
that those levels of collaboration and
technology that we can carry and many
areas of the country are possible and there
They were building a series of d
I would tell you incremental opportunities
derived from all efforts of all those
efforts how was this you are
you can see the plane of zero g of the nasa
on that plane we had the opportunity to
fly in periods of 30 seconds in
conditions of weightlessness until a
accumulated 40 minutes which we are
with uniform eve khaki
a colleague Juan Ignacio and I were the
first to participate in those flights of
zero gravity in that photo they look
represented various sectors of the
American and global society
enterprising scientists in fact a
of the companies you are doing
experiments at that time now is a
very successful 3d printing company
the first ones that made 3d printing
in the space between other students
etc
but the most curious thing was that it was the
first time a group of
Costa Ricans could fly in conditions
zero gravity
carrying the flag of costa rica no
we had to do from another country to
achieve that goal and that was very
symbolic for us reveals a lot of
the direction the world is going in the
global part but it also reveals that
to be able to play in those big leagues
we have to also put our
part and like eb and in the talk
the morning that adolfo did not say good how
we can do to get more involved
people in this
all these opportunities were like
windows that could see us
they set out to see another world and that’s how
we started a project to create a
life-size space mockup that
represents a structure that goes to the
international space station but
we decided to do it
joining three sectors the sector
education specifically colleges
technicians like the cobao sector
industry specifically SMEs and the
government sector and that way we build
this model that I had to be the director
of the project that serves to make
future astronauts can be trained
can feel can see can tell
to the design teams you want
change that is not right that could
go wrong
we finished that aerospace model was
a whole success we involve those three
sectors and those three sectors then in
this moment develops into something
activities related thereto
this field once when you drag not
had started in costa rica
drinking coffee watching the plans of what
We were going to manufacture in Guanacaste
franklin said or did not say rather what
we need to do is generate a mass
critical a critical mass is a concept
physical that says that for you to achieve a
sustained change a relevant change
you have to have a minimum
amount of items also applies
in the field of sociology and during
all these years from 1985 to the
2011
I realized that we are already inclusive
seeing what others are doing
colleagues today that we are already in that
moment in Costa Rica we already have
the critical mass we already have it if what
that follows in the following always the
line of research and development and
as part of my professional development
I am currently working with a
company flame boston sanctifies boston
scientific is an industry company
medical and in the medical industry what
inspires us or the purpose of what
we do is change your life to
the patients and save his life
in certain occasions we have many
values as a company but the one that I
I would like to rescue today is the value of
global collaboration achieve those
products achieve the things that
we do not know if we did not have a
team like this one our here that is
I am part of that work team
there is more research and development
working in the company on this but
this team we have youth
We want we have talent and also
we live the value of the
global collaboration to achieve our
goals and are not our goals that
has allowed us is currently at hand
left of the screen
you see a device a product
which is called waxman is a product that
he uses advanced materials that he uses
advanced engineering and those some of
the samples of what the team
Costa Rican works day by day
collaborating globally with scientists
with engineers in many parts of the
world
this product is a product that gets
inside the heart and avoid or
reduces the risk of accidents
cerebrovascular
what we know as spills
brain also on the right side of the
screen we can see another device
that is a stent, they are located in
certain regions of the veins or of the
arteries and what they allow is to eliminate
constructions that can be given
health conditions of many different
types in all development tasks
of these products that are in the
market and that are subject to processes
of continuous improvement
there are Costa Rican talent working in
the country in many manufacturing areas
of research operations and
development and that brings me to the second
which is that if we already have a
critical mass nationally and at the national level
regional
we do not do anything if those elements do not
they begin to interact and collaborate
Positive way
I firmly believe that if we
we can apply our intelligence
collective to collaborate more in everything
what we do in our fields
we can gradually plant those
seeds and achieve transform our
country and our region in countries that
we said and dreamed in many
different areas
thank you very much
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