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Move Over, Tractor—the Farmer Wants a Crop-Spraying Drone

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Launched in 2015, the company has its own factory and employs more than 40 people. The next three years were a wild ride of testing their drones in Costa Rica and other countries across Central America. Meanwhile, they had been looking for new business opportunities in Costa Rica. Don’t overengineer it.

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The Integrated Designer

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I grew up in Costa Rica, was always drawn to science and math, and have always been very competitive,” Sandoval-Pichardo says. “In In college—the Costa Rica Institute of Technology —I signed up for what at the time was the hardest engineering degree in my country to get into— mechatronics. She received it in 2015.