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;Name: Macarena Oyague Santolalla;School (Cohort): Universidad de Ingenieria & Tecnologia (2021 cohort);Majoring in: Computer Science;Country: Perú;Email: [[Special:EmailUser/Macarena.oyague]]
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==Bio==
Macarena is a '''Computer Science ''' student at Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología, currently in the 5th year. She started studying Engineering, but she fell in love with coding during the first year’s introductory courses. Although she really liked what she would be capable of doing studying CS, ''she thought it was a major for more intelligent people''. That is the reason why she explore a little more doing extracurricular and interdisciplinary activities, in order to meet new people and learn about their experiences. Doing so, ''got a realization that she was all the time around a computational way of thinking to solve problems, and also around software systems to help with that''. She changed her major to CS at the 3rd year and now she is part of IEEE Computer Societyhappy with the decision.
She is optimistic person and she is always with a smile in her face trying to help every person that crosses paths with her. It began when she realized that, because '''<u>although some people had hurt your confidence, there will be someone who can help you to get it back</u>'''. She fell lucky because she learned from amazing people from her university different points of view to create her own. She admires how this people lead and '''wants to help people gain their confidence ''' in the positive way that she could do it.
Since the beginning of her journey, Macarena has been enjoying every meeting with new faces to learn something about them.'''Her career interests are related to algorithms and data structures, but she also has a strong passion for how maths can impact in an artistic good design.'''
==AchievementsActivities==She was '''academic mentor of Math''' during her 2nd year. When it ended, she started as a Teacher Assistant in the area of Science. Macarena hoped the work required to give extra classes to her classmates, but it was to help in the organization of the courses. She became part of '''AIESEC''' in the team of Incoming Global Volunteers, which characterizes in giving support to young people who are coming to Perú to do volunteering work. Later, in the third year she had the opportunity to go to Blumenau in Brasil with AIESEC during a month to give workshops to kids about environmental awareness.
She was (and also is still) part of '''SpinOut''' since her 3rd year, where she attended to design thinking workshops made by other UIF Fellows on campus and a workshop of innovation methodologies given by other students. ''There she could gain creative confidence,'' because the main mindset of the student organization was to trust in ourself. She learned that each idea is important to create a final solution and to consider each point of view, despite it doesn't match whit her own.
She was a '''peer mentor''' to give advice to new students of the university and also part of the '''student council''' during her 4th year. It was a challenge because of the new difficulties because the pandemic had different necessities than the ones her team researched.
She was part of '''IncUVa''' of UTEC Ventures during summer of her 5th year, where she learned more about the steps to develop a startup and having a solid work team. She is also at the moment part of the directive of '''IEEE Computer Society''' at her university.
==Social media profiles==
* IG: https://www.instagram.com/macarena.oyague/
* GH: [https://github.com/macarenaoyague?tab=repositories https://github.com/macarenaoyague]
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