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Hi, my name is Maria and I work here at the NYSCI. I'm a design lab resident so what I
do here is that I design and prototype activities for kids so they can learn in a different
way. The idea is for them to have a challenge and have a purpose and they start building
to achieve that objective. I'm from Bogota, Colombia. I came to the United States two
years ago. My english wasn't that good in the beginning. After one week of working here
I felt improvement, I was able to talk better, it was just amazing. I study Chemical Engineering
at the City College of New York. The thing about science and why I want to be an engineer
that's because of my dad. Because when I was a little girl, he used to play with me and
make scientific experiments and he encouraged me to be very curious. He wanted me to ask
him about everything. Science is amazing because it explains everything. Everything you see
that is beautiful in life like why the trees are green, why they change colors, why the
flowers are so beautiful? Everything is science everywhere, it's just so interesting.