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Living in an island is great, but also difficult. I live where you vacation, sure, but vacations are temporary. What happens to the relationships that are not [[File:Alexherrero.jpeg|thumb]]temporary? Most of my family and friends are not even in my island anymore, but I am not standing around moping, I'm running around making. I have focused on making alternate realities 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 virtual reality student organization at my university as well as doing research both in Puerto Rico and the States. Working hard as both an engineer and an art student to make a more connected reality a reality!
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Ivan Alexander Herrero Loza, or Alex, is a visionary. Currently, he is a third year student at the University of Puerto Rico: Mayaguez Campus, majoring in [[File:Alexherrero.jpeg|thumb]]mechanical engineering and minoring in visual arts. With the help of Idea Platform as well as some local entrepreneaurs and students, some of which had been UIF Fellows beforehand, he was able to create a software development community for virtual reality and other immersive technologies, the first of its kind in Puerto Rico.
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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. 
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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!
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Latest revision as of 20:36, 5 June 2020

Ivan Alexander Herrero Loza, or Alex, is a visionary. Currently, he is a third year student at the University of Puerto Rico: Mayaguez Campus, majoring in

Alexherrero.jpeg

mechanical engineering and minoring in visual arts. With the help of Idea Platform as well as some local entrepreneaurs and students, some of which had been UIF Fellows beforehand, he was able to create a software development community for virtual reality and other immersive technologies, the first of its kind in Puerto Rico.


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!


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