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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.
This year, The University Innovation fellows cohort of her University impulsed the creation of a new community in her campus called "Comunidad innovadora UCU" ("Innovative community UCU") whith the aim of impulsing the same values and ideas that the program searches for, but extendign beyond it. Now the community counts with almost 30 students, serching to improve their innovation and entrepreneurship skills and also to generate ideas to spread this values through the campus. As a fellow, she had also lead Design Thinking workshops to pre-university students, student representatives and business studentsand was also named UIF Fab 2020 as her two campus fellows [[Fellow:Victoria_Ferrer|Victoria Ferrer]] and [[Fellow:Julieta_Caputo|Julieta Caputo]].
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.