500 Chihuahua farmers are benefitting from a 20-year-old Tec student's prize-winning filtration invention

500 Chihuahua farmers are benefitting from a 20-year-old Tec student's prize-winning filtration invention

A 20-year-old engineering student from a farming family in Chihuahua has won a national award by developing an irrigation filter that could make water go further for drought-stricken farmers. Luis Ángel Robles Morales, a mechatronics student at Tecnológico de Monterrey’s Chihuahua campus, leads OAKs Filtration, which last week received the 2026 Eugenio Garza Sada Award in the category of student social innovation. Robles’s grandfather grew corn,…