MEXICO - This week two new accusations against the Mexican government were made public by young talent Mexican scientists.

The first case was that of the young Mexican ladies Claudia Quevedo Montejo, Iyari Madrigal Badillo, and Alejandra Puente Leon a group of middle school girls that were looking to build a solar power helicopter. The competition "Inovation Spirit Challenge" was organized by Conrad Foundation. The only obstacle the girls faced was that they did not have the resources necessary to build it.

With the change of the administration in their home state of Tabasco, the young ladies received a 10,000 pesos grant to build a model at the start of 2013. Once the model was build and they proofed that their project could work the Conrad Foundation gave them a trip to NASA, if the girls would have received the funding they originally asked for they could have build a life size helicopter and received a $10,000 USD reward.

The second case was a letter written by Ricardo Heras Osorno to Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto. The 21 year old Heras was asking for a scholarship to study Astrophysics, and asked if he needed to be someone like Javier "Chicahrito" Hernandez or Saul "Canelo" Alvarez in order to receive any attention by his administration.

Heras Osorno was accepted into the University College of London to study his mayor/masters in astrophysics, but he needed about 535 thousand pesos annually in order to attend. The national council for science and technology (CONACYT), the secretary of public education, and the state of Mexico government all told he did not qualify due to the fact that he'd be studying his bachelors and masters simultaneously.

"I don't understand why in all of the government institutions they tell me to just study in Mexico, when there is no university in Mexico that offers what I want to study; astrophysics. I've been accepted by some of the best universities around the world, I was the only Mexican to be accepted in 2012 in an English university and I hadn't even graduated from high school yet. I was also accepted by the University of Manchester to study a masters in Physics with a focus on astrophysics. And finally I was accepted to the University of Colorado in Boulder to study astronomy. But I could not attend any of the above universities due to lack of funds" mentioned the letter to the Mexican President.

Both of these cases are added to the controversy of a study made by the Department of Physiology of the Center for Attention for the Talented (CEDAT); where they proof that 96% of Mexican kids who have a high IQ lose their outstanding qualities before reaching adulthood.

The investigation points out that the gifted kids lose interest in further learning due to bullying in school and lack of support by adults. Kid geniuses are usually labeled as "big mouthed" or "challenging" by their teachers and that causes for the rest of their peers to pick on them. These kids are usually more sensitive and more aware of aggressiveness coming their way which can cause severe physiological damage, low self esteem, and depression.

Andrew Almazan Anaya who is 18 years of age and director of CEDAT explains the characteristics of a kid genius:

1. Hyperactive, but this declines when presented with a difficult or interesting task.

2. Fast learner.

3. Distracted (due to the hyper activeness), but with the ability to learn without paying attention.

4. Participates and can fully understand adult conversations.

5. Continually builds objects or structures.

6. Wants to impose his own rules.

7. Emotionally sensitive.

8. Has a low tolerance to frustration, which produces a will to always achieve his objectives.

The government has yet to comment on any of the accusations, but the amount of complaints by the scientific community keeps on growing. On top of financial suppor the community wants leaders that understand the day to day struggles and offers them long term solution, not just temporary.

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