By Laura Baas | General Director
During the past few months, our students in Oaxaca and Chiapas have been occupied with very different exciting modules. The second-year students in Chiapas learned how to be successful in a sales project during the Entrepreneurial module. After three sessions about marketing, mathematics, communications and design, they put the learned lessons into practice during a day of sales at the Mercadita market. The collective earnings will be used for their graduation celebration at the end of June.
Our second-year students in Oaxaca investigated the question of who they are together with the two Dutch guest teachers Melle Dotinga and Jaap Stahlie of Stichting Reclame Maken Voor Jezelf (Promote Yourself). It was the second time they visited Mundo de Talentos from the Netherlands after their stay in San Cristóbal de Las Casas in 2020. In collaboration with a local team of guest teachers like psychologists, poets and writers the students reflected on who they are, what they stand for and what makes them unique. Parents also took part in the program.
Impressive personal and creative texts were the result of two sessions of writing. Creativity flowed in the train wagons in the MIO museum and outside under the fig tree. In the meanwhile, Jaap portrayed the students. At the end of this school year the texts will be integrated in the design of the pictures. The final result will be an incredible exhibition of 40 portraits with personal messages of our students that will be exhibited in the centre of Oaxaca City.
In the meanwhile, the first-year students in Oaxaca went on an excursion to the Faculty of Biological Systems and Technological Innovation (FASBIT) of the Benito Juárez University. They learned about the wonderful world of new technologies by participating in four very fun workshops: Didactic Games of Programming Logic, Robokids, Light and Optics and Artificial Intelligence.During these workshops the students recognized the valuable importance that mathematics has to be able to program, use artificial intelligence or build a robot and that technology is found in everyday life, from the appliances we have in our home, to the equipment used to record movie scenes.
Our graduates in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, had some interesting sessions with very different guest teachers. They were invited by Mundo de Talentos´ sponsor C&A México to visit the clothing store in the capital Tuxtla Gutiérrez. Team members of the store and María Fernanda Peña of the C&A Mexico headquarters in Guadalajara shared their experience, satisfaction and growth working at C&A. By taking a tour through the entire store the alumni learned about the trends, the creative and manufacturing process of the collection, customer service and the origin of C&A. A special aspect of this excursion was learning about the ReutiliC&A and water consumption reduction program, where a second life is given to the garments and water is saved during the clothing production.
Also, the graduates met with guest teacher Alizé Lacoste, lecturer at the UNAM university in biological anthropology.She shared her experiences in the discovery of human remains from the archaeological zone of Palenque, as well as the importance of identifying bodies both currently and in the past.The identification of bodies from archaeological sites serves to learn about the culture and habits that people had in previous times, such as filing their teeth or deforming their skulls as aesthetic issues, as well as understanding the activities that they carried out. However, there is still much to discover in relation to their lifestyles.
Apart from the Saturday sessions, the Mundo de Talentos directors have been active in fundraising and networking activities. During the last days of April, we were invited for festivities at the Dutch Embassy and the network of companies from the Netherlands that operate in Mexico, Holland House Mexico (HHM). The latter celebrated it´s fifth anniversary during a stylish gala dinner at Casa Lamm in Mexico City on the 26th of April. On behalf of the HHM sustainability department four NGO’s were invited and presented during the evening: Mundo de Talentos A.C. was one of them. It was great to celebrate this festive evening together and to meet many driven professionals from Mexico and the Netherlands. We invite the members of this network to become part of our Mundo de Talentos community through which new generations of Mexican youth can be inspired and motivated to find their path. Together we can have a greater impact!
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