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Seems we have a genuine mystery on our hands.

Costa Rica is well-positioned to start attracting more high-tech jobs and improve its workforce, according to one keynote speaker at the Competitiveness Summit, held Wednesday at Escazú’s Hotel Real InterContinental and co-sponsored by the Costa Rican-American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM) and global consulting firm Deloitte.

Tico high school seniors Mariano Ramírez from the British School of Costa Rica and Carolina Pérez from the Alajuela Scientific High School will depart later this month to Houston, Texas where they will spend two weeks learning from scientists and astronauts at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

An educational film on climate change is getting far reach, gaining an audience in arctic regions of Canada.

Former NASA astronaut and Tico scientist Franklin Chang Diaz on Tuesday met with Costa Rican President Luis Guillermo Solís to deliver a series of proposals aimed at improving energy generation and creating more efficient transit in the country.

"It is a message to the world that this country is still thinking big," the president of the Central American Aeronautics and Space Administration said on Monday.

Two Costa Rican high school seniors will have the opportunity to spend two weeks learning alongside astronauts and other scientists at the Johnson Space Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in Houston, Texas.

Chang hopes to raise money to produce a documentary video about how the plasma rocket engine he designed will function.

Chang turned to KickStarter.com to help promote the launch of his plasma engine, which is set for a mission in 2014.

Chang, the first Latin American to visit space, holds the record for most space trips.