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<span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">'''Serving as UIF Since:''' Spring 2015<br/>'''School: '''Michigan Technological University<br/>'''What she does now:''' Fifth Year Civil Engineering Student and Design Thinking EnthusiastEnjoying the summer before graduate school!<br/>'''What that means:''' Focusing on Water Resources in school while also following her passion of teaching design thinking and using it on a daily basisShe graduated from Michigan Tech! </span></span></span>
<span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">'''Contact her about:''' Teaching design thinking to all ages, improv, organizing things<br/>'''Email: '''medykema@mtu.edu<br/>'''Phone: '''(231)-670-6782</span></span></span>
<span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"></span></span>'''Last Updated: '''<span style="font-size:larger;"></span> <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">May 7, 2019</span></span></span>
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Magann Dykema, originally from Norton Shores, Michigan, is a University Innovation Fellow from the Spring 2015 cohort. She is a fifth year undergraduate student at graduate of [[Michigan Tech|Michigan Technological University]] studying with a B.S in Civil Engineering with a focus on Water Resourcing. She is pursuing and a Certificate in of Global Technological Leadership through the Pavlis Honors College where she spent this last summer in Brazil. In Brazil, all of her design thinking training was tested out in the world where she heavily focused on the empathy and define steps in order to look for projects for future teams in her program. </span></span><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">This summer, she is living and working in Massachusetts as an intern for UIF. </span>
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Magann is a strong believer in paying it forward. Because of this, she spent her first two summers of her college career working for Michigan Tech’s Summer Youth Programs because the programs she attended in high school played a large role in her decision in school and major. Additionally, she has spent time as an Orientation Team Leader paying it forward because the guidance from her OTL helped make the transition to college easier.</span></span>
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">At Michigan Tech, she has been working on spreading the culture of innovation by planning and facilitating creativity, design thinking, and innovation events on campus. These include, but are not limited to, [[Uifresh|#uifresh]] during orientation, an elementary aged after-school class, and smaller workshops and events. She has also been a part of The Alley Makerspace on campus where last year she was the Operations Coordinator and this year she is the Student Director.</span></span>
<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">When not hard at work between school, extracurriculars, and a job on campus, Magann can be found trying to relax by striking it up on the nearest lanes, drinking coffee, watching Gilmore Girls, exploring the outdoors, cheering on the Detroit Tigers, or creating memories with friends and family.</span>
<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Check out this blog post Magann wrote about her trip to the Rocky Mountain Regional Meetup: [http://universityinnovationfellows.org/uvuifamily/ http://universityinnovationfellows.org/uvuifamily/]</span>