{"id":1036016,"date":"2026-05-20T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"trans-28107-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infoans.news\/en\/trans-28107-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecuador \u2013 The First Salesian Congress on Science and Technology honours projects focused on innovation and sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>(ANS &ndash; Quito) &ndash;<\/strong> The Salesian Cardenal (in Spanish) Spellman Educational Unit has successfully concluded the First Salesian Congress on Science and Technology, an academic event that brought together delegations from various Salesian institutions across the country to share scientific and technological projects focused on innovation and care for our common home. Students, teachers, speakers and officials took part in the presentation and evaluation of various projects that demonstrated creativity, research and commitment to society and the environment. At the end of the day, the official award ceremony for the most deserving projects took place: 1st place &ndash; Salesian Cardenal Spellman Educational Unit, with its&nbsp; &ldquo;Formulation of an organic fungicide for the control of phytopathogens in CCN-51 cocoa&rdquo; project; 2nd place &ndash; Don Bosco de la Tola Educational Unit, with its &ldquo;Intelligent assistant robot with vital signs monitoring and emotional support for the elderly&rdquo; project; 3rd place &ndash; Santo Tom&aacute;s Ap&oacute;stol Educational Unit in Riobamba with its &ldquo;Synthesis of a corn starch-based bioplastic filament for 3D printing&rdquo; project. A special mention was also awarded to the San Patricio Educational Unit (UESPA) &ndash; Salesian Project Ecuador, for its outstanding participation and commitment to the project: &ldquo;Eco-friendly corn starch-based bioplastic as a sustainable alternative to conventional plastic&rdquo;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(ANS &ndash; Quito) &ndash; The Salesian Cardenal (in Spanish) Spellman Educational Unit has successfully concluded the First Salesian Congress on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2028107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1036016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interamerica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infoans.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infoans.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infoans.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infoans.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infoans.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infoans.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infoans.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2028107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infoans.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infoans.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infoans.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}