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Diego was trained as a University Innovation Fellow in Fall 2018, and attended the Silicon Valley meetup in March 2018. As a Fellow, he focused his work on the well-being and mental health care of students in college. That is why he founded UTEC Puppy Lab. Organization that promotes mental health through canine interaction. In 2018 I he was invited to give an Ignite at LOOP, also, I he was part of the Bootcamp of the event where along with an interdisciplinary group we worked on a solution for villagers living by the train rail. Our solution was chosen as the best in its category.

In 2018, he participated in IDDS International Development Design Summit, initiative created by MIT D-Lab to co-design low-cost solutions to challenges faced by people living in poverty around the world. That same year, he was a finalist in the Disrupton Amazonia contest at UTEC, where he built a prototype of mobile laboratory to collect plastic from the Amazon River and transform it into useful products. The last year, Diego was selected to participate in IAP-MIT Design Technologies for Coffee Production in Colombia. They design designed new technologies for agriculture with a team of students from Harvard and MIT and coffee growers.<br>