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Carlos Daniel Trejos Angulo is from Turrialba, Cartago, Costa Rica. He attends the Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica and is going into his fourth year of Electronic Engineering.

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What most interested you about Dunlap\’s instrumentation school? 

In Costa Rica, I\’m involved in an astronomy club called AstroTEC. The teacher – the one who guides the group – is really passionate about astronomy, and he always says we should aim to go outside the country to study, because new cultural experiences are very nice to have. I looked for various options last year, but things got cancelled by COVID. And then Dunlap appeared. What caught my attention  [about Dunlap\’s program] was, since I study Electronic Engineering, continuing the instrumentation part will be very important in my future. So I was very interested in learning how to mix the astronomy part and the engineering part, to complement my career.

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What have you enjoyed most about the school so far? 

I was actually really surprised that I understood a lot of concepts in the lectures that I thought I wouldn\’t get –  I thought the learning curve would be steep. But I really understood a lot of the concepts that were discussed. So I\’m very happy for that. I\’ve enjoyed learning about high-energy stuff – like X-rays, and millimetre waves in radio, because I really like spectroscopy and the kind of topics that are related to my degree.

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What is the session you\’re most looking forward to? 

I\’m really looking forward to learning more about adaptive optics, because in my degree, there is not much about optics – only really simple stuff that\’s not really advanced, to say the least. So I\’m really curious to know more.
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What do you hope to do next? 

My future plans are based on getting a Masters degree in Electronic Engineering, especially focusing on instrumentation and the parts that involve communication. Like Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and that kind of stuff. I\’m really passionate about that.

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