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Fellow:María Josefina Martínez

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Inspired in the University innovation fellow program, Josefina discovered her passion for creativity and innovation and participated in hackatons to gain experience in the field. In 2019 her team won the "Rally Latinoamericano de Innovacion", an 28hr International hackaton, getting the first national place and the second international place. In this experience, the team, "Laikers 98" developed a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVIgVxfSWyg&feature=youtu.be security device called SOX] to improve rescues after a building collapse.
During her spare timeThis year, she loves doing sports and spending time with The University Innovation fellows cohort of her family. Also, she participates in University impulsed the creation of a new community committed in rescuing dogs in her neighbourhood, campus called "Comunidad innovadora UCU" ("Innovative community UCU") whith the aim of impulsing the same values and she spends her Saturdays teaching catechesis at ideas that the school “Salesiano de la Costa”program searches for, but extendign beyond it. She has always helped in social institutionsNow the community counts with almost 30 students, nowadays she is a volunteer in Teleton Uruguay, a rehabilitation center for children with disabilitiesserching to improve their innovation and entrepreneurship skills and also to generate ideas to spread this values through the campus.
She firmly believes that daring to experiment new things is the best way to learn what is best for each of us. Walking the talk, she is always looking for new things to do, this year raising a future guide dog puppy as a volunteer. After meeting another girl who did this she got interested and become the [https://ucu.edu.uy/es/los-dias-de-lola-en-el-mullin first student in campus to do it], with a puppy called Lola, form the litter number 12 of the country (yes, it's pretty new in Uruguay!). As its a very new topic, she had to deal with many permitions and she is now pursuing consciousness on this. During her spare time, she loves going to the gym, spending time with her family, mostly with her two little nephews, Ema and Franscisco. She also considers to be a really good googling and she loves spending hours reading about random topics and get informed, but mostly reading about cities, aiplanes and airports, you can imagine, she also loves traveling.
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