Accomplishments

-October 2020: Bryan Villareal, remote REU intern alum featured in the costa rica News

​-June 2020: Dr. Victor Calderón (Guatemala) gave a 2-day long machine learning and data science workshop. Link to the workshop here.

-June 2020: Natalia Ramírez vega (costa Rica) Part 1, Nicole mejía Cerros (honduras), mitsa marisol castellano pineda (guatemala) Part 2, Valeria Hurtado (nicaragua), and Raquel nohemy mejía (honduras) Part 3 are featured in the american astronomical society committee on the status of women in astronomy blog (click on names to access the articles).

​-May 2020: DR. Santiago Casas (Costa Rica) GAVE A 4-DAY LONG introduction to programming in python. Link to the workshop resources here.

-May 2020: MAURICIO RODRÍGUEZ ALAS participated in the NINE summer internship program through the national radio astronomy observatory

-April 2020: Fabián quesada zúñiga was accepted in the master's program in astronomy at the INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ASTROFISICA, ÓPTICA Y ELECTRÓNICA (INAOE)

-March 2020: Nicole mejía cerros attended the Escuela latinoamericana de astronomía observacional
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-January 2020: Abigail García pérez (Mexico) ATTENDED THE 2017 GRAD-MAP PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY WINTER WORKSHOP AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK. 
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-February 2018: Juzel Lloyd (Jamaica), Marianela Quirós (Costa Rica), Fabián Quesada (Costa Rica) and Edwin Santiago (Costa Rica) were offered summer internships in astronomy at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc) in Chennai, India through the NANOGrav collaboration (Juzel), Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE) GTM observatory (Marianela), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in the Institute of Astrophysics and Radioastronomy (Fabián), and through the REU at Vanderbilt University (Edwin). Congratulations to all!

-December 2017: Submitted an American Physical Society Outreach and Informing the Public grant to bring four students to 2018 summer student interferometry school at Green Bank, West Virginia. Requested: $9097

-August 2017: Marianela Quirós, Natalia Ramírez, and Jessica Ng (Costa Rica) were accepted to be part of the  Supernova Foundation program . This is a mentorship program for women in physics.
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-May 2017: Natalia Ramírez was offered a summer REU internship at Space Telescope Science Institute, a program which accepts about 14 students out of a poll of 500+ applicants. Natalia is featured on Vanguard STEM!

-January 2017: Natalia Ramírez (Costa Rica) attended the 2017 GRAD-MAP Physics and Astronomy Winter Workshop at the University of Maryland College Park. 

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