Living in an island Ivan Alexander Herrero Loza, or Alex, is great, but also difficulta visionary. I live where you vacationCurrently, surehe is a third year student at the University of Puerto Rico: Mayaguez Campus, but vacations are temporary. What happens to the relationships that are not majoring in [[File:Alexherrero.jpeg|thumb|Alexherrero.jpeg]]temporary? Most mechanical engineering and minoring in visual arts. With the help of my family Idea Platform as well as some local entrepreneaurs and friends are not even in my island anymorestudents, but I am not standing around mopingsome of which had been UIF Fellows beforehand, I'm running around making. I have focused on making alternate realities he was able to experience things that one would think impossible in the hopes that one day I might connect people in the very same way! This goal has led me to start my own create a software development community for virtual reality student organization at my university as well as doing research both and other immersive technologies, the first of its kind in Puerto Rico and the States. Working hard as both an engineer and an art student to make a more connected reality a reality!
Alex has always enjoyed innovating and making. His Eagle Project was to create a place to put big recycling containers in his school, but the school did not yet have a recycling program, so he made it. When he went went to college he want with the same mindset, and created Visionary. He is a LSAMP researcher, doing research in the fields of virtual reality and its human centered implications in both UPR:Mayaguez and the University of Maryland, College Park. He also works closely with UPR:Mayaguez's Makerspace: Starting Point, and is a Vice President for the university's innovation student organization: Idea Platform. All this work has put him in contact with entrepreneurs and innovators from all around Puerto Rico, and now, by becoming a University Innovation Fellow, this network will transcend the world! [[Category:Student Contributors|Student_Contributors]][[Category: Student ContributorContributors]][[Category:University_of_Saint_Thomas_(2017_Fall_cohort)]][[Category:Student_Contributors]]{{CatTree|University_of_Saint_Thomas}}