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Science education could bring new opportunities to developing countries.
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Giuliana Huerta-Mercado feels that she had a good school education in Lima, Peru. But shortly after arriving at the University of Michigan as a first-year economics student in 2015, she was startled by what she saw. Some of her US friends were already working on projects that involved robots or drones. “I was like, how do you know all these things? You haven’t even started doing engineering,” she says.

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Nature 562, S10-S11 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-06833-z

This article is part of Nature Outlook: Science and technology education, an editorially independent supplement produced with the financial support of third parties. About this content.

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  • Correction 13 November 2018: A earlier version of this article cited the wrong value for the number of STEM teachers in Accra who have been trained by The Exploratory.

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