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'''Contact her about:''' Human-Centered Design, Design Thinking in Education and Medicine, Building community in a diverse campus, first-year engineering student projects, internship opportunities, Women in STEM resources, learning spanish or any type of latin dancing.

Maria Sagastume earned her Bachelors degree in Biomedical Engineering and STEM Education and an MBA in Healthcare Management at Florida Tech in Melbourne, Florida. She is now a PhD student in Human-Centered Design and is working on her literature review for her dissertation topic. She will teach first-year experience for the 3rd time during the fall semester to first-year engineering students where she will incorporate the KEEN mindset and 3C's model that she was trained on when she represented Florida Tech at the KEEN conference as an FYE instructor. Maria is part of the group of faculty working on the KEEN project for makerspaces and incorporating entrepreneurial mindset to first year engineering students.