President Danilo Medina attended the formal opening of the Research, Development and Innovation Center at the Loyola Polytechnic Institute on Friday, 13 December 2019, in San Cristóbal. The high school has been fitted with 16 laboratories with the most advanced technologies in the world to serve a population of 4,000 students in San Cristóbal.
The Loyola Polytechnic Research, Development and Innovation Center is a 3,500-square-meter building. Students learn skills to contribute to the innovations and competitiveness needed by national industry.
The center has applied mechanics laboratories, intelligent factory, electrical networks, instruments and process control, automated manufacturing laboratory, communications system laboratory, multimedia laboratory and forensic computer laboratory. Similarly, project workshops, an innovation laboratory, among other unprecedented specialized areas.
The workshops will benefit the students of the technical level of the polytechnic educational centers Francisco J. Peynado, Manuel Valencia and Julio César de Jesús Asencio also located in San Cristóbal.
Also attending the inauguration were Higher Education Minister Alejandrina Germán, Public Works Minister Ramón Antonio Pepín, Industry & Commerce Minister Nelson Toca Simó, and former President Hipólito Mejía. Along with them were Rafael Ovalles, director of the National Institute of Technical Vocational Training (INFOTEP); Julio César Díaz, governor of San Cristóbal; and Nelson Guillén, mayor and his son, Nelson José Guillén, president of the Dominican Institute of Telecommunications (Indotel).
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Presidencia
Diario Libre
16 December 2019