Plática Lily Ley de PACCAR México | Expo Transporte ANPACT 2023

Good afternoon, welcome to Auditorium Mexico 1 to continue with the conferences of Expo Transporte AMPAC 2023. We invite you to take your seats to begin shortly. We are now broadcasting. Sorry, sorry. Me too, me too. Well, you first. Yes, of course. We take it with... Javi, one, two, three. Hello. Hello, her name is Lili. She is going to talk about why what you do is very important so that later you can be like them: vice presidents, directors, engineers, and make robots and trucks. So it's great. They are going to talk. Good afternoon, welcome to Auditorium Mexico 1 to continue with the conference program of Expo Transporte AMPAC 2023. Welcome to all our visitors, welcome to those who are also watching us on social media, welcome to all attendees of this great exhibition. Next we have the conference 'Creating the Future: Transformative Talent in the Technological and Automotive Revolution in Mexico' and we welcome Lili Ley and Roberto San Martín. Welcome. Hello, hello, welcome everyone to this conference 'Creating the Future: Transformative Talent in the Technological and Automotive Revolution in Mexico'. It is a pleasure for me to introduce two great speakers whom I admire very much and I believe they will generate a lot of value with this talk. Also welcome to all those who are tuning in electronically and online and on social media. On one hand we have Lily Ley, VP and CIO of PACCAR Inc, who is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Master of Science in Information Systems at the University of Washington. In 2016 she was recognized as the most powerful and influential woman in Washington by the Washington Diversity Council. In 2021 she was named Influential Woman in Trucks. Welcome, Lily. It is a privilege for us that you are here.

Thank you very much. Thank you, Lili, for such beautiful and inspiring words. I am sure you are creating an impact, and women like you inspire the new generations. Well, now it's time to present Roberto San Martín, general director of Fundación Robotics. He studied mechatronics engineering at the Monterrey Institute of Technology in Mexico City. In 2006, he founded Roboti, the pioneering organization that pushes STEM education in Mexico, and in 2014 he founded Fundación Robotics. Welcome, Roberto. The stage is yours. Thank you.

Thank you. What a pleasure to be here with you. Truly, Lili, thank you for your words. Thanks also to Stefy, Javier, and everyone at PACCAR and Kenworth for all the support. I want to tell you a little about us as a group that promotes robotics. Some of you, perhaps like me when I was a kid, wanted to be an astronaut. Lili got close to mechanics helping her dad, but sometimes we didn't always have someone around who could help us. I remember I had thousands of questions like how black holes work, what happens with atoms. Once with my grandmother, who took care of me, I burned a bathroom doing a chemistry experiment that didn't go so well. And that's how one learns, right? That's how one awakens curiosity. We realized 17 years ago that not everyone had this space close by, and that there were many girls and boys who wanted to get close to science, technology, and robotics, and there wasn't always a way to do it. That's why we started Roboti Robotics 17 years ago. From there, we started doing projects in private schools. Eventually, we had teams that won national robotics competitions and participated in international events, which allowed us to keep advancing. We started having students who won some competitions at NASA. That opened the doors for us to think that what we did, what the girls and boys in Mexico did, had that great talent that Lily mentions, and we wanted to unleash it and take it further, beyond just private schools, to think about all schools, public schools, formal and informal learning centers. Well, we started collaborating with the government more than 10 years ago, bringing community centers nationwide on robotics topics so that girls and boys could get close to these subjects. That experience made us realize that talent is everywhere, that girls from Oaxaca, children from Baja California, Guanajuato all have the same talent, and what's missing are opportunities. When we could ensure that everyone had the opportunity to be stimulated in science and technology, everyone could achieve enormous results. Today, Fundación Robotics supports 1,500 educational centers, mostly public schools with state education secretariats, and we have formed alliances with various organizations, including PACCAR and Kenworth, to ensure that more schools and more girls and boys have these opportunities to get close to robotics, science, and technology. We believe that our passion as Mexicans for STEM and the future will allow us to build a much more solid future.

Well, as you know, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics have to do with that accelerator we have as an industry or as an economy to innovate. It has a lot to do with added value to move from manufacturing to 'mindfacturing' and the opportunity to generate much more innovation in Mexico. We believe there is a great opportunity, not only nearshoring as mentioned now, but all the talent of the Mexican industry depends on more girls and boys getting close to these topics from a young age. In particular, now in the context of Guadalajara, talking with the Regional Council of Guadalajara, approximately today about 9,500 professionals per year are needed in Guadalajara in STEM topics. These are vacancies in science, technology, programming, mathematics, and yet in the entire region there are about 3,000 graduates. That means we are missing about 6,000 people each year who could fill those jobs. And this issue is not only in Guadalajara; it is an issue in all cities of the world, also in Baja California, in different regions where Mexican companies are, also on the border. So we know that eventually one of the restrictions for the country's economic growth is human talent, and that's why it's important to develop it from childhood. Today, as a foundation, we have two main lines: the main one is to expand so that more girls and boys get close to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, and we also train educational figures. One of our most successful programs is the First Lego League program, which is done in alliance with LEGO Education and First, in which girls and boys have the opportunity to get close by solving an important problem of humanity each year. We have had problems like water, space, bees, transportation. Allow me to show you this brief video about what First Lego League is about, and in a few minutes we will present a team that has been doing First Lego League.

First Lego League is present in more than 110 countries around the world and is a program in which we recover the voices of girls and boys to help us solve the problems facing humanity. Each year, a theme is chosen in which girls and boys will work, from exploring what is happening with those problems to helping us solve them. The alliance between First and LEGO Education is born from a genuine interest in inspiring the builders of tomorrow around technology. The more we inspire children in these disciplines that are part of STEM, the more builders we will have in terms of creativity. First Lego League is a very versatile educational program that can be implemented in any learning center, whether in public schools, private schools, or community centers. Additionally, schools can implement it extracurricularly or curricularly. First Lego League includes different LEGO Education materials and guides for both students and teachers, where each session to implement the program is explained. When children work in these types of programs, they develop not only programming or technology skills but also teamwork, collaborative work, they meet students from different grades, learn to express themselves, present projects, research. It allows students to develop new skills that will give them access to better opportunities in their daily and future lives. My students have developed many different skills in this program, not only science or math skills but also skills in Spanish or language because they have to make a presentation, learn their dialogues, know how to present themselves in front of an audience. I see when the kids come in, they are one way, and they leave transformed automatically. They are much more mature, much more expressive, they work super well as a team, they are more resilient, they promote values a lot, and they also promote the development of 21st-century skills like critical thinking. At the end of each season, the teams celebrate everything they learned in different events, whether school, national, or even international. In these events, they participate and interact with other teams, volunteers from different organizations, and together we make a great community. We see in the classrooms where we are implementing First Lego League, the girls and boys are very excited to present projects to teachers, to touch on relevant topics, and it is the way we want to live education: an education that excites the student so that through learning, everyone can be part of this and thus form the community we want.

Well, this is First Lego League, and I want to tell you about the case we had in Baja California. In Baja California, we worked with Kenworth and PACCAR. We had a relevant situation: it was a state where we still couldn't easily access bringing these programs. We started working with them in the 2021 school year, and our first experiment was to work with 13 schools. We began collaborating with the Secretary of Education of Baja California. Baja California has six municipalities, and they were very interested in being able to bring development to all municipalities of Baja California and that schools would have this access. Thanks to the collaboration with PACCAR, we were able to grow so that the following year we went from 13 schools to 27 schools, and we also managed to convince the Secretary of Education of Baja California to join efforts and budget to continue with more schools. This collaboration was very successful. It allowed us last school year to impact up to 2,000, almost 2,500 girls and boys, of which 52% were girls, and 31 teachers from these schools so they can do STEM continuously. For this school year, we grew the program again and managed to go from 27 to 39 schools this school year that started a couple of months ago. We have 39 schools in Baja California. For us, this is a success story in which private initiative, thanks to PACCAR, together with the state government and us as a foundation, are managing to impact. We hope this year to reach up to 11,000 students. In this way, we can generate greater local capacity that will eventually translate into regional economic capacity. This case is so important to us that it reflects well what has happened to us nationally. Today, nationally, we hope to grow to 1,700 schools in all 32 states of the republic.

And well, this season the theme will not be space, it will not be water. The international committee decided that this year the theme has to do with art. So the girls and boys will tell us how art is related to science and technology, and from there they will tell us what they are interested in communicating, which we think is important to also hear the voices of girls and boys regarding what they see as relevant. Each school year, we have the challenge of reaching all the schools we have the capacity to impact, in this case 1,700 schools. And in January and March, schools have the opportunity to participate in a regional event. These are events where they can participate to move on to a national phase. Last year we had 14 events of this type, and this was made possible thanks to 871 volunteers who donated their time to give feedback to the girls and boys, be with them during the event, and help us decide who the winners would be. This school year we expect to have 20 events, so we are looking for 1,600 volunteers between January and March to be able to hold all the events in all the regions where we are. We have events almost all over Mexico in different cities and regions. We are looking for this volunteer base. And well, the regional events have as their final venue our national event in Mexico City, which will be on March 9, and from there we have five international events, of which the most important, something like our Olympics, is the World Championship in Houston, where more than 45 countries out of the 110 that do First Lego League worldwide attend. And with this and this introduction, I want to present to you the team Sorinex, which last school year at the Regional Event in Guadalajara right here were crowned as runners-up of the event and also won the regional innovation project. They are part of the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz school and are here with us. So I give them a warm welcome.

Welcome, ready? Thank you.

Hello, good afternoon everyone. It's a pleasure to be with you here, presenting ourselves as he mentioned. We are the team that won at the Jalisco level here about a year ago, approximately in December, when we prepared for the event. Come closer, guys, come closer without fear. They were part of the team that ended up winners and that gave us the pass to Mexico City, where we met many experiences. The competition was very different. It was very nice to be there, both for us as teachers and for them, as it was very significant, something they had never experienced before. It was a new experience to leave Guadalajara and present our project, which they will now explain to you. Well, our students, go ahead.

Hello, good afternoon. We are the Sorinex team from the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz school, and we are going to present our project, which is called 'Ingeniarte'. Our project consists of generating works of art with the support of technology and robotics, building a catapult that throws balloons filled with paint and a frame that is activated by the robot. The main idea is to combine the principles of engineering, mathematics, technology, and art to create beautiful works.

Hello, good afternoon. Today our objectives: our first objective is to use mathematics, well, technology to create works of art. Our second objective is to use, no, not use, to program the robot to make works of art. Our third and last objective is... let's see, I forgot the name. Ah, yes, our objective is how we will get the resources.

The resources will be LEGOs from past seasons.

Our... explain how we are going to do it, how it is activated... I don't remember, whatever, you explain it without fear.

This is our robot that we also used last year to do missions and complete everything. And here is our model: it's a little hand that throws bags of paint, and the robot will activate it and throw it.

Our project is to combine art and the principles of mathematics, also the mixing of colors and the traction of artistic lines, driving us to create new objects, new objects through LEGOs that can make beautiful paintings of art.

As our classmates said, we will make the robot pull this little part, which is the catapult, and throw paint balloons onto a white cloth.

Well, this is the new project we are designing for the competition. It's still just a prototype, the model, and we are designing it on a large scale. The past project we had was a sustainable energy project, and for those who didn't know, LEGO changes theme each season, so every year we have to do a new theme with the kids. That's why you see them so nervous because we are just starting this season, and we are just beginning to immerse ourselves in these new topics we are going to do with them. Last year we had different themes, but still, you can approach the kids and ask them about the project, and maybe up close they will feel less nervous than in front of everyone and can tell you a little more about our project and what our objective is with all this. They can also ask about their experience and how they have felt throughout the participations. For example, the kids who already went to Mexico City to compete, come to the front.

Our experience in Mexico was very fun because first we explained our innovation project, then we went to the robot game, and we had a great time.

Thank you very much. I have a question for someone, whoever wants to answer: what did you like most about creating these projects?

Uh, programming the robot.

Yes, and someone tell me, what do you want to be when you grow up? If someone already has an idea.

An astronaut.

And you, as teachers, how has this process been throughout this project?

I also think it has been a great challenge for us because we went from being elementary school teachers to becoming programming teachers, design teachers, engineering teachers. We self-trained, adjusted our schedules outside of our work time to help the kids carry out the robotics project and invite them to have new experiences day by day. So for us, it has been a challenge as colleagues and as teachers. We also want to thank our school community: parents, teachers, administrators, who have supported us greatly, both in resources and time, and in everything we have needed to develop the robotics project at our school.

Well, thank you very much. Lili, if you can join us, we have some small gifts for all of you for being part of this collaboration between PACCAR and Fundación Robotics, and to continue driving the future of new generations so they become more integrated into such an important sector as automotive and transportation. Ah, okay, well, and we have one last surprise.

We are very happy. PACCAR Mexico will be the host of the first national event of the Northwest Regional League of First Lego League. Bravo! We are very grateful to PACCAR and Kenworth for joining the family of First Lego League events. And well, for the entire Mexican Northwest, we will now have an event in Mexicali. So just as we have the event here in Guadalajara, there will be another event in Mexicali for the states of Baja California (north and south), Sonora, Sinaloa, and Chihuahua. And well, it will be the venue. We hope that more than 50 teams and 500 girls and boys will come. We are delighted with everything they do. Thanks to PACCAR and schools like Sor Juana Inés, today we are already more than 1,700 schools and more than 100,000 girls and boys who today dream of being astronauts or programmers or throwing paint balloons onto a white canvas, and that makes us very happy. Thank you.

Congratulations, congratulations. Good job.

Well, that's all. Thank you very much to all of you, teachers, students, Lili, Roberto, and the entire PACCAR community and attendees. Thank you very much. I don't know if you have any questions or comments. Alejandro, please go ahead.

Thank you very much. Lili, it has been a fantastic talk. This is the effort we make at AMPAC and the associates of AMPAC, which is the National Association of Bus, Truck, and Tractor Producers. Here are the seeds of knowledge and the seeds of the future. That's why we thank you, Lili. It is a very important effort, and we thank Kenworth and PACCAR for all this effort. Thank you very much, and we look forward to seeing you at AMPAC in about 15 years, maybe we'll be there.

Yes, thank you very much. Thanks to everyone.