{"id":81094,"date":"2018-03-01T14:20:13","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T19:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/81094///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/81094//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/81094//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/81094//?p=81094"},"modified":"2020-06-23T12:20:44","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T16:20:44","slug":"woman-wonder-graduate-student-aerial-acrobat-recognized-aerospace-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/81094///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/81094//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/81094//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/81094//woman-wonder-graduate-student-aerial-acrobat-recognized-aerospace-work/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/81094//","title":{"rendered":"Woman of Wonder: Graduate Student and Aerial Acrobat Recognized for Aerospace Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

When she was 7 years old and growing up in Bogota, Colombia, Estefania Bohorquez /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/81094/u201917 would take little day trips 30 miles outside the city. She would walk through a passageway to a fascinating place more than 600 feet underground. There, she would look in awe at what is known as Zipaquir/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/81094/u00e1 Salt Cathedral. Bohorquez wasn/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/81094/u2019t there for photo ops. She was there for her own curiosity, a trait deep in her DNA that would eventually lead her on a journey beyond her wildest dreams./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/81094/n

/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/81094/u201cI remember studying the details of that cathedral,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/81094/u201d says Bohorquez, who earned a bachelor/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/81094/u2019s in civil engineering with an emphasis on structures from Âé¶¹Ó³»­´«Ã½. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/81094/u201cEven as a young girl, it was incredible to think that someone had designed such beautiful structures without the technology or tools we have today. It opened a lot of questions for me./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/81094/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/81094/n

/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/81094/u201cEven as a young girl, it was incredible to think that someone had designed such beautiful structures without the technology or tools we have today. It opened a lot of questions for me./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/81094/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/81094/n

The quest for answers has taken Bohorquez on life-altering experiences from Bogota to Orlando to Italy to Germany, and to a hospital bed from which she learned about her next stop: Washington, D.C., where on March 1 she will be presented with a 20 Twenties Award from Aviation Week and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/81094/n

As the name implies, the prestigious award recognizes the 20 most promising future leaders in the aerospace industry. Bohorquez was nominated partly for her academic achievement but mostly for her field work, including a collaborative project in Cologne, Germany, between the German Aerospace Center and Âé¶¹Ó³»­´«Ã½. The objective was to search for materials that can sustain extreme physical and mechanical environments applicable to hypersonic and reusable space vehicles. Impressive stuff. So much so that Bohorquez is the only person from the state of Florida to earn the 20 Twenties Award and the achievement will put her on stage with Ivy Leaguers and students from universities like MIT and Cambridge./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/81094/n

Bohorquez is the only person from the state of Florida to earn the 20 Twenties Award and the achievement will put her on stage with Ivy Leaguers and students from universities like MIT and Cambridge./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/81094/n

/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/81094/u201cSome of my friends say /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/81094/u2018You/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/81094/u2019re always thinking about what/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/81094/u2019s next. You need to slow down./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/81094/u2019 But there are so many things that interest me, I don/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/81094/u2019t want to stop learning./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/81094/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/81094/n