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'''Email:''' josefinamcalero@gmail.com
Maria Josefina feels distinguished by Martinez (call her Vitiligo, Jose) is a University Innovation Fellow and she is a skin condition that determines her skin to have two diferent coloursjunior year electronic engineering student at Universidad Católica del Uruguay. This motivates her Once finished this career, she wants to come along with other people with specialize in the same conditionBiomedical and design Engineering field. Vitiligo also strongly influenced She actually lives in her major choiceCiudad de la Costa, consideringlocated on the possibility to develop a microelectronic investigation to influence in skin behaviouroutskirts of Uruguay's capital, also supported by her sister who has a PhD in microbiologyMontevideo. <span style="color: rgb(60, 60, 60); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span>
Inspired in the University innovation fellow program, Josefina discovered her passion for creativity and innovation and participated in hackatons to gain experience in the field. In 2019 her team won the "Rally Latinoamericano de Innovacion", an 28hr International hackaton, getting the first national place and the second international place. In this experience, the team, "Laikers 98" developed a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVIgVxfSWyg&feature=youtu.be security device called SOX] to improve rescues after a building collapse.
Last year, The University Innovation fellows cohort of her University impulsed the creation of a new community in her campus called "Comunidad innovadora UCU" ("Innovative community UCU") whith the aim of impulsing the same values and ideas that the program searches for, but extendign beyond it. Now the community counts with almost 30 students, serching to improve their innovation and entrepreneurship skills and also to generate ideas to spread this values through the campus. As a fellow, she had also lead Design Thinking workshops to pre-university students, student representatives and business students and was also named UIF Fab 2020 as her two campus fellows [[Fellow:Victoria_Ferrer|Victoria Ferrer]] and [[Fellow:Julieta_Caputo|Julieta Caputo]].
She firmly believes that daring to experiment new things is the best way to learn what is best for each of us. Walking the talk, she is always looking for new things to do, during 2019 and 2020 she raised a future guide dog puppy as a volunteer. After meeting another girl who did this she got interested and become the [https://ucu.edu.uy/es/los-dias-de-lola-en-el-mullin first student in campus to do it], with a puppy called Lola, form the litter number 12 of the country (yes, it's pretty new in Uruguay!). As its a very new topic, she had to deal with many permitions and she is now pursuing consciousness on this. Nowadays she was given acceses to the "IGNIS convoca" program which gave her the opportunity to produce a documentary film about the importance of guide dogs and the importance of including them in society. During her spare time, she loves going to the gym, spending time with her family, specially with her two little nephews, Ema and Franscisco. She also considers to be really good googling and she loves spending hours reading about random topics and getting informed, but mostly reading about cities, aiplanes and airports, you can imagine, she also loves traveling. == Related Links ==
[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_Cat%C3%B3lica_del_Uruguay Universidad Catolica Campus Overview]