Pupil of Santa Fe, rated by Zuckerberg, at the end of an innovation contest on Facebook

A Systems Engineering student was evaluated by Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, at the end of a review of social networking innovation. Ignacio Brasca, a native of Armstrong, explained that his group had introduced an educational system based on new technologies to change the curriculum of teachers.

Brasca, who is studying at National Technological University, went to Sillicon Valley, California, and was the only Argentinian to reach the final of the Facebook Developer Conference, which explores the possible evolutions of the social network.

In this area, it has been rated by the creator of the social network with the largest number of users in the world. In a short time, the stage of development of the product will begin and the pupil himself confided that "the ideal would be to apply this system, once finished, in the country".

In the statements to the program "Zysman 830" which is issued by The eightBrasca said that the forum in which he participated is developed every year under the sponsorship of Facebook and that he had already had interviews before the event and that he had even participated in an organized forum in Argentina.

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Ignacio Brasca with the youth group evaluated by Zuckerberg.

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"We were a group of ten children from different countries and we introduced an educational system to modify teachers' curricula so that they do not fall behind or are not updated over time, depending on This is why the system can be used in different fields.The competition was intended to innovate in the field of education or health through a line downloaded by the company. 39, United Nations, "said Brasca.

The young man described his feelings when he was evaluated by Zuckerberg himself in the United States. "It was a very good thing, by the time you do not fall and when you realize it, you have it next, it was crazy."

When asked if living in Argentina was a disadvantage to participating in a competition of this type, Brasca said: "It is not a disadvantage to live in Argentina. makes two other Argentineans of the free market, having today Internet and becoming global because on the Internet, you are no longer Argentinian, nor European, nor anywhere else, you can search any which type of information and being nurtured on your own.Today, personal research matters more than the career that one does. "

After this resounding success, Brasca said his most immediate goal was to finish his university career. "I'll be in a year, when I'll be done, I'll try to go to another country to train other big companies, of course, I'd like to go back there, but the future is out of the country, at least as far as technology is concerned, we are very far from what is happening there, "he says.