[1][4] Her communication with President Cleto González Víquez allowed her to gain employment working on railroads in Costa Rica.
[1] Impressing the Costa Rican government with her work, she was awarded one of two scholarships given annually by her home country and enrolled at Virginia Tech in 1935.
[5] At Virginia Tech, she joined the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and was the only woman in the organization at that time.
At Westinghouse, she helped supply the United Nations with electrical equipment, which assisted the Allied Powers during the World War II.
Venegas worked on handling technical engineering problems that arose in supplying generators and other necessary machinery to the Allies.