Fellow:Sofia Lacayo
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Sofia Lacayo is a 6th year medical student from the Autonomous National University of Nicaragua (UNAN-MANAGUA). She works in the medical school as a promoter of innovation among students and as a speaker on entrepreneurship issues. She is also an interpreter of the faculty in international university affairs.
She has participated for 4 years in the workshop of innovation and entrepreneurship given by the Grand Valley State University and in the recreation of this workshop in different faculties of her university.
In 2015, She participated in the call for competing funds for innovation, being selected by obtaining financial resources to achieve prototyping and promote an innovation of her creation; This opportunity made her obtain a great experience working with inventiveness, innovation, entrepreneurship and relations of agreements and resources. As a person she is animated, cheerful, supportive, honest and hardworking; since childhood she has had a creative mind, developing very well in manual arts, invention, teamwork and leadership.
Her favorite activities are reading, practicing swimming, supporting her faculty extracurricularly and participating in medical brigades in the poor communities of her country
As a medical student, he has worked actively teaching other students the importance of innovating in the comunities and being an entrepreneur in the health area. Her dream is to see her university as a center of reference in innovation and entrepreneurship; be the pioneer in technology education in the country, as well as a place where students enjoy and develop their ability to create.
she is a university innovation fellow candidate and as a candidate she has been actively working in her university community developing projects and tests in innovation and thus create a change, she plans to attend the stanford university workshop in spring 2018.
