In Peru: Watching the Future

I’m in Peru watching some of the brightest minds of North America solve problems with some of the brightest minds of South America. When I watch students interact, I always feel hopeful that the future of the world can only get better. At the end of the laboratory tours and seismic research areas at the National University of Engineering in Peru, our hosts had arranged for us to be serenaded by a Toca! (This is a small traveling band, something like Mariachi, that brings the happiness to you.) By the end of the evening, everyone was dancing and singing. On the following day, these twenty-something scientists and engineers were visiting a local community, working together trying to determine how to build more efficient housing. At the end of day, I see them solving world problems, not through war and unfortunate politics, but through the exchange of ideas and personal interaction, sprinkled with music, laughter and dancing.

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