From September 8th to 10th, the V International Conference: Quality Growth of Inquiry-based Science Education (IBSE) Programs was carried out at the City of Monterrey, Nuevo León.

During the event, organized by Innovation in Science Education (INNOVEC) every two years, the mechanisms to implement and promote Inquiry-based Science Education (IBSE) Programs’ growth maintaining their pedagogical intention and continuity in the long term were analyzed.

In the Museum of the Steel of Monterrey, worldwide-renamed scientists, educational authorities, businessmen and teachers from countries as the United States, France, United Kingdom, Germany and Mexico and representatives from international organisms as the Inter-American Development Bank, met. It is important to highlight the participation of Mario Molina, Mexican Chemical Nobel Laureate; Sally Goetz Shuler, Executive Director of the US-based National Science Resources Center; Pierre Firewood, Academy of Sciences of France Delegate and Yves Quéré, Member of the Academy of Sciences and founder of the Main à la Pâte (Hands in the Mass) program. During his participation Mario Molina pointed out that the early education of science using inquiry-based methods is essential to develop children’s critical thinking to succeed in the 21st century.

For INNOVEC, science education must be accessible to all children and young people. INNOVEC’s similar efforts to implement IBSE in Mexican basic schools are also done in other countries as France with the Main à la Pâte Program; the National Center of Scientific Resources of the National Academies of Sciences and the Smithsonian Institute of the United States; the Little Scientists Program, of Colombia; We Make Science Program, of Panama; among others.

The V International Conference was possible with the support of the United States -Mexico Foundation for Science (FUMEC), the Ministry of Public Education, the Government of the State of Nuevo León, the Ministry of Public Education of Nuevo León, the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT), Fresnillo Plc., Dow Chemical, Intel Education and other outstanding national and international institutions.