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JUNE 17, 2025

Discovering robotics and mechatronics in high school Caal was introduced to technology when, at age 14, she received a government scholarship to attend the Instituto Técnico de Capacitación y Productividad , a high school in Guatemala City. Her efforts were in direct opposition to longstanding gender norms in Guatemala.

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MAY 22, 2024

Today, Erickson is the CEO of Houston-based Hylio , a company that builds crop-spraying drones for farmers. One lesson was the need to build in redundant pieces of key hardware, particularly the GPS unit. Always check with the end users that what you’re building is going to be useful.” Don’t overengineer it.

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OCTOBER 26, 2021

The limited pilot will be restricted to 200,000 users in the US and Guatemala. F2's Marcus has said the company plans is instead to use free person-to-person transfers to build up its user base, before branching out to become a more general payment provider and making money on merchant fees.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Stanford University prides itself on its international diversity, touting that today's undergraduates hail from 70 countries. They dedicated their empty pandemic hours to building a solution. "We School just isn't fulfilling when you aren't physically there, and we had a lot of time on our hands."

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FEBRUARY 5, 2023

We see our work at Duolingo as furthering the company’s overall mission to “develop the best education in the world and make it universally available.” But as immigrants themselves (from Guatemala and Switzerland, respectively), they recognized that not everyone has access to great teachers.

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AUGUST 4, 2022

He left there in 1966 to join the University of Cambridge as an assistant director of research. He earned his bachelor’s degree in aeronautical engineering in 1958 from the University of Bristol , in England. He worked at the university at the time of his death. where he continued his networking work.

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