STEM in Mexico

Penpal STEM program continues in LATAM

In July, the LATAM team completed another Penpal program with students ages 10 to 11 from the “Ignacio Manuel Altamirano” primary school located in Texcoco, State of Mexico, a town near the north of Mexico City.

Penpal is an Ashland STEM program which gives children the opportunity to meet our solvers and open their panorama to a world of possibilities. The program involves exchanging weekly letters, allowing participants to share experiences to sow dreams and improve their writing skills.

This year, 20 solvers from Ashland participated with 40 students. The program was extended to all of LATAM, further enriching the children's experiences, allowing them to meet solvers from other countries.

A visit from the mentors from Mexico and a video call from those who were far away helped close the program this year.  Two hands-on activities were conducted, one by the personal care team where the children had the opportunity to make a body cream, and another by pharmaceuticals team where they learned about the manufacturing process of a tablet.  At the end of the session, children were provided new backpacks, gowns and notebooks that they could use in their next school year.  

Our Ashland team finds this STEM activity a very exciting and unforgettable journey where we all learned something while contributing to education for these children.

Top Five Students program

• After 2 years without in person sessions, Ashland had the pleasure of having the presence of 14 students from the National School of Biological Sciences of the National Polytechnic Institute(IPN) at our Top five students 2022 event.

• Due to Covid protocols, there is still a restrictions of the number of visitors, the event also received more than 50 students who participated on a virtual mode; students from Guatemala, Colombia, Peru and Mexico. 

• The Pharma and Personal Care teams were responsible for the topics and the practical session given to the students.
   

scientific day

• Scientific Day was born from the commitment to contribute to the academic update related to the Pharmaceutical Industry in Mexico.

• The program has been extended to the region and for more than 5 years this event has been held every January, where professors from all over LATAM are invited to participate in a purely scientific forum. Where presentations on innovative pharmaceutical processes are shared.

internship program

• More than 20 years working with ANIQ (Asociación Nacional de la Industria Química) with the intership program.

• Ashland has had more than 100 intern's recipients all over LATAM

• Interns – all of them working in the industry after the internship in companies like Colgate, BASF, Noregal, PiSA, Ache, Eurofarma, etc; and of course, this program has also been a talent pool for Ashland where some of our colleagues have had the opportunity to join Ashland.

donations

• Dissolutor equipment and a water filtration system were also donated to one of the public Universities in Mexico, Instituto Politécnico Nacional to contribute in the practical teaching process at Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas.

• A film coating equipment was donated to public University in Argentina, also contributing to the teaching process at Universidad de Buenos Aires.

• Additional donations of Ashland products (Benecel, Klucel, Aquarius, Natrosol, etc.) have been made to all public an private universities in Mexico, Brazil, Colombia and Argentina with the purpose to support R&D activities and practical classes in Pharmaceutical Technology.
   

thesis program

This is the most recent activities aggregated to the STEM Ashland program in Mexico making partnership with Universities to contribute to the R&D; thesis students use Ashland lab and products as part of their main protocol of study until noe more than 10 different thesis has been released and sometimes publishing technical articles.
Fair for Life Certification FFL) dedicated to education

Fair for Life Certification FFL) dedicated to education

In 2019-2020 Jaumave Plant generated $3595.00 USD as a result of sales product FFL and in September 2021 was dedicated for remodeling and maintenance of the elementary school Benito Juárez in the Ejido Viento Libre, Güemez, Tamaulipas.

top five students graduation

launch & learning at the university

Symposiums for students at the University