Women and girls from Colombia’s Pacific Region are showing the world a different side of the once-marginalized area. Two young women who participate in the Escuela de Robótica [School of Robotics] in Quibdó, supported by the ACDI/VOCA-implemented USAID Colombia Program of Alliances for Reconciliation (PAR), have received good news: They have been selected to take part in a program at NASA’s Space Center University in Houston, Texas.
At NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, USA), the young women will train like astronauts and engage in hands-on engineering challenges related to space exploration. Kelly Córdoba Garcia, 13, and Yorleidy Parra Torres, 14, participate in the Innovation Girls and Empowered Women programs, both offshoots of the School of Robotics, which teaches science and technology as problem-solving tools.
