After more than 30 years, the first national chemistry conference in Costa Rica (Congreso Química 2022: Hacia el Desarrollo Sostenible) was organized by the School of Chemistry at TEC, University of Costa Rica (UCR), National University of Costa Rica (UNA) and the Costa Rican National Chemistry Association. From November 29^th to December 1^st, in the Aula Magna at UCR (San Pedro, San José), more than 200 chemists and students presented their main research lines. On this conference, I was part of the Scientific Committee and the TEC representative in the Executive Committee, and attended as a speaker.

I presented the oral communication “Solid-state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in Costa Rica: advances and perpectives“, together with my undergrad student Andrés Borloz-Chinchilla, where I showed what we have done in the last 6 years using the technique and what must be done to increase its applications.

Finally, I was invited to the TV show Onda UNED where I had the chance to talk about science (e.g. batteries and energy storage) for a general public with other colleagues, but also about our experience and impressions about the chemistry congress.