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Marcela is a Senior of the Civil Engineering major at Graduate from UTEC. Since high-school, she developed the value of empathy and service vocation collaborating in activities for kids in schools far from Lima. Also, Marcela is very related to folkloric dances, she considers it as a way to be connected with her culture and origins. There is one quote that she heard and completely loved to explain this topic:

Talking about her extracurricular activities, Marcela considers that an engineer has to be complete both academically as well as with soft skills, empathy and a vocation for service. She realized that her freshman year was really tough academically and emotionally, based on this experience, she wanted to help other freshman to avoid that them passed this difficult situations in a future, because of this she made the decision of taking part of the Peer Mentoring Program at UTEC. The objective of this program is to advice freshmen to reach their adequate incorporation to university, making sessions about freshman's interest and dynamic activities, all of this is made by students for students. As her performance in this program was excellent, she was chosen as the best peer mentor of the year, this recognition also gave her the opportunity to participate as one of the 4 UTEC representatives to participate in CADEuni 2019, an event that brings together leading students from universities throughout Peru to develop their leadership and create ideas to contribute to the development of the country. Also, in 2019 she was part of the Marketing and Communications area of the first edition of TEDxUTEC. Finally in 2021Until 2022, she helped UTEC students by being the Spokeswoman of the Science Department. Nowadays she is still was collaborating in the Peer Mentoring Program and participating in Peer Coaching, a new initiative of student counseling in UTEC. And until last year she has helped the UTEC's Faculty Team to orientate the new candidates of the UIF Program. Nowadays she is advisoring as UIGuide to Latin-American universities to train new change agents.

At present, Marcela has already a plan for her future. She wants to be a multidisciplinary Civil Engineer focused , on one hand, on Urban Planning, connecting all departments, cities and towns so that everyone has access to the basic needs of a human being by applying new technologies, she wants to be part of a new generation of engineers with a humanistic profile, and also (after her experience abroad) be immersed in the investigation field, specifically in Mining Supervisions and Operations. At presentIn spite of all her plans, she shares always has in mind sharing all her knowledge learned in the UIF program to prepare new agents of changehelp her environment to be better each day.

== Contact her about... ==

* Making, designing and developing makerspaces* Innovation in Civil Engineering* Getting to know about Peru* Travelling around the world* Mental Health* Developing Educational Volunteerings (K12) for latinamerican children* Any opportunity that help her learning about Urban Data Science* Talking about your passions :))

*Marcela's favorite hobbie hobby is to make desserts.

*Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program (ELAP) 2023 Scholarship Recipient (2022)*UTEC Spokeswoman of the Science Department at UTEC (2021)*Honors Roll Recipient for Extracurricular Excelence in the Subcategory of University Community (2020-2021)

*UTEC Spokeswoman of the Civil Engineering Department at UTEC (2020)

[https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcelayecklemarcelacyeckle/ LinkedIn]