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Mexican Teen Valeria Palacios Wins HP’s 2025 World Education Medal for Students

Formal recognition is scheduled for January 20 at the Education Leaders Forum in London.

Overview

  • HP announced the 2025 World Education Medal laureates in London, naming Palacios the winner in the student category.
  • President Claudia Sheinbaum and Education Minister Mario Delgado publicly congratulated her following the announcement.
  • Palacios, 19, from Veracruz, studies at TecNM/Universidad Ceulver and is an alumna of Conalep, focusing on applied AI to local environmental and social needs.
  • Her projects include Clean Water Done for water cleanup, Drones para la Reforestación for habitat reseeding, Proyecto Mantarraya for emergency response, and the eldercare service robot CONIA.
  • The other honorees are Rebecca Winthrop in the leaders category and Vineeta Garg in the educators category, with HP’s education executive Mayank Dhingra praising the winners’ impact.