Manta, MANABI
At just 13 years old, Emily Ulloa López has a comprehensive reading capacity of 500 words per minute. Juliana, mother of the minor from Manta, province of Manabí, says that the adolescent’s intellectual capacity was evident when she was very young.
Even that, she says, has led Emily’s peers and acquaintances to identify her as a child genius, a label she doesn’t feel very comfortable with.
The teenager has participated in several exhibitions. She has experiences from international competitions in which she has measured herself against robotics and science professionals.
In the next few days, Emily will enter to receive subjects at the Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (Espol), in Guayaquil, as a training process in data sciences, a profession that she hopes to follow in a university abroad.
At the age of 6, she had two experiences that brought her closer to branches of knowledge, such as programming, electronics, systems, and robotics, which she complements with the learning she acquired with tools such as Arduino cards and the Scratch programming language.
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Emily is the creator of a robot, Dini-Robotini, through which children with autism can express their emotions.
But in this taste for robotics, technology and innovation, the teenager has also had certain aspects that have played against her. Her mother remembers that she was once denied the possibility of entering a robotics contest in the first place because she was a girl among adult participants and for having created a robot at her young age.
Juliana López, mother of the teenager, says that in the face of that initial refusal she had to send emails to be accepted, which in fact happened, because Emily was able to demonstrate her level of intellectual co-efficiency. Despite this, she remembers, they forced her to participate together with an adult as responsible for her.
“There has always been that part of disbelief, but I have shown one thing, that when they see a girl, she will demonstrate all her capacity,” says the teenager with the same certainty that she shows in science exhibitions that she has had nationally and internationally. international.
Emily’s life has had certain contrasts, because along the way she has met people who, in principle, have questioned her abilities. In her classes, certain teachers called her attention or deducted points in some subject for not holding the pencil “correctly”, like the rest of her classmates.
With this scenario, her relatives have had a constant struggle so that she can advance levels given her IQ.
The road has not been easy, says his mother. And for three years Emily has been fighting against degenerative myopia, for which she follows a permanent treatment as well as against an ailment she had since she was born.
And it is that Juliana López, mother of the minor, had a very difficult pregnancy (the only one). Even Emily was born at eight months and despite the fact that due to her condition she had to be in a thermocot, the doctors detected that her body showed unconventional characteristics for a newborn.
In fact, Juliana maintains, her daughter took off the gloves that protected her hands from the cold a few days after she was born.
But what worried the mother most was the reflux that prostrated her for her first eight months in a baby carrier. In these instruments she was carried two or three times a day since it was necessary to avoid the descent of blood through the nose and mouth.
That problem was detected and treated in time by the doctors.
Thus, with this scenario, Emily’s parents were clear that her health was paramount. On a trip to the canton of El Carmen, when the girl was with her parents, she suffered a blow; after that action she pronounced her first expression: “Ayayay”.
His relatives were surprised, as they were when he began to walk at 9 months and already at 18 months articulated words. At 3 years old she was already reading.
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“After reading about the processes in children that develop the intellect in an advanced way, I realized that, unintentionally, I did some processes to help the girl’s intellectual development, such as stimulating the belly with readings towards her, listening to classical music, that I later saw that they recommended on an international channel, but above all to show him a lot of love because a child’s brain develops in the first five years of his life”, says Juliana.
The mother believes that there is still a lack of awareness in the country of parents who went through the same concerns as them, not having references on how to help children with high IQ, and even more so to be able to give them that opportunity to advance and that they do not are stalled by the country studies model.
The teenager still does not think about which university she will study at, because the conditions will be seen over time and, above all, her health condition due to the issue of degenerative myopia.
For now, he is preparing an exhibition for a university in Massachusetts, after having interviews with Netflix and NASA personnel.
Emily says that she is still a girl, that she has fun playing tennis, reading as much as she can, learning and helping, but above all a girl who shows the world that age is not an impediment and that she is as smart as brown salt. with fried potatoes that he tastes when his mother prepares them. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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