Fellow:Icapdevila

Irina Capdevila González

Irina Capdevila González is a University Innovation Fellow and an undergraduate student studying Mechatronics Engineering at Universidad Tecnológica del Uruguay (UTEC). Her fundamental values are resilience, hard-work, teamwork, entrepreneurship and innovation. Irina is originally from Montevideo, Uruguay, where she lived for a few years before having to move to San Javier, then a few years later to Fray Bentos where she lived most of her life, before moving to Montevideo to get an Industrial Engineering degree. After seven years, assisting to three different universities in this city pursuing the same major, and personal reasons she decided to go back to Fray Bentos, and race her son as a single mom while working part time and studying Mechatronics Engineering at UTEC, where she participated from the Stanford’s University Innovation Fellows program. From a very young age, Irina was interested in dancing. Growing up, she was also very heavily involved in music, learning to play piano. Irina is passionate about collaborative learning, both as a discipline and as practice. This passion has led her to participate in speakers' forums and maker/ hacker marathons. On her campus, she is not only interested in her career but also in human resources considering health, neuro and gender diversity, etc.