Hi, my name is Maria, and I work here at NYSCI.
I’m a Design Lab Resident, so what I do here is I design prototype activities for
kids, so they can learn a different way.
The idea is for them to have a challenge or to have a purpose and they’re building to
achieve the objective.
I’m from Bogota, Columbia.
[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 in the City College of New York.
The thing about science, 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 really curious.
He wanted me to ask him about everything.
Science is amazing because it explains everything, like everything you see that is beautiful
in life.
Like, why are trees so green?
Why do they change colors?
Why the flowers are so beautiful?
Everything is science everywhere.
It’s just so interesting.