{"id":65301,"date":"2010-01-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/road-to-success-leads-from-medellin-to-kingston-to-paris\/"},"modified":"2010-01-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T00:00:00","slug":"road-to-success-leads-from-medellin-to-kingston-to-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2010\/01\/road-to-success-leads-from-medellin-to-kingston-to-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Road to Success leads from Medellin, to Kingston, to Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2014January 20, 2010–Juan Cano\u2019s often-bumpy road to success runs from Medellin, to Kingston, to Paris. Born in Medellin, he lived there for 14 years until the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels kidnapped his father.<\/p>\n


\n\tFortunately, one of the rebels recognized Juan\u2019s father as his former boss who had treated him fairly. The rebel, at great risk to himself, released the father from captivity. Still in danger, the family left the homeland they loved to begin a new life in the smallest state of a new country.<\/p>\n


\n\tIt was a difficult adjustment. Juan who was learning advanced algebra concepts and trigonometry in Medellin was placed in a simple addition class as an ESL student in Pawtucket. Yet Juan pushed for the necessary courses to get to college.<\/p>\n


\n\tAfter a year at CCRI, he was recruited by Talent Development and enrolled in 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s International Engineering Program, a five-year program that would lead him simultaneously to degrees in mechanical engineering and the French language. \u201cThe world has become a narrower place,\u201d he says explaining his choice of learning a third language- French instead of Spanish, in which he was fluent. \u201cThe understanding of another language and culture is key to good relationships with business and peers.\u201d <\/p>\n


\n\tJust as Juan\u2019s father was about to become an accredited math teacher, he suffered a stroke and was hospitalized for months. Juan, who had just finished his junior year at 溏心vlog免费B站, was needed at home to translate. Understanding his situation, his 溏心vlog免费B站 professors rushed to help, giving him work to do online and sending him updates on what he needed to cover. <\/p>\n


\n\tToday, Juan is completing his engineering degree with a 9-month internship at Saint-Gobain, a global leader in construction markets and innovative, building materials. He is helping validate a model that describes the stress that glass and thin film undergo in the thermal processes. <\/p>\n


\n\tHis apartment in Saint-Ouen is a few blocks away from Paris. When Juan returns to campus and graduates in May, his road will widen. As he searches for a career that draws on his engineering and language skills, his supportive family will surely be passengers on the ride.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2014January 20, 2010–Juan Cano\u2019s often-bumpy road to success runs from Medellin, to Kingston, to Paris. Born in Medellin, he lived there for 14 years until the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels kidnapped his father. Fortunately, one of the rebels recognized Juan\u2019s father as his former boss who had treated him […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}