Programmer José Miranda Valderrama Receives NASA Honor and Joins Mensa

José Miranda Valderrama, a 26‑year‑old Argentine programmer from Catamarca now residing in Córdoba, works for Coca‑Cola Andina, speaks five languages and is a member of Mensa.

He earned a special mention from NASA for a data‑visualization project on Argentine wildfires spanning the last decade. His achievements also include a gold medal at the 2015 Mathematics Olympiad, a silver medal at an international competition, participation in science camps in Chile, Uruguay, Hungary and the U.S. Space & Rocket Center’s Space Camp, and a U.S. embassy scholarship that took him abroad at age 15.