A Mexican student and her team have obtained second place on a NASA program for their design of a smart medical suit.

Tec de Monterrey students have won 1st place with a project in AEXA’s International Air and Space Program in collaboration with NASA.

Students from Tecnológico de Monterrey’s Sonora Norte campus have been selected as finalists in NASA’s world hackathon with an application they developed to predict forest fires.

Along with 12 other young Mexicans, four Tec students and a Tec graduate participated in the design of the Úurich flexible mechanism, which has been launched into space to be tested on the International Space Station.

Miriam Molina has become the first Mexican living in Mexico to participate in “The Lunar Codex” project, meaning that 3 of her paintings will be sent to the Moon in a capsule.