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==BioBiography==Marcela is a 3rd-year student of Civil Engineering sophomore major at UTEC. She defines herself Since high-school, she develop the value of empathy and service vocation collaborating in activities for kids in schools far from Lima. Also, Marcela is very related to folkloric dances, she consider it as a collaborative way to be connected with her culture and emphatic person with initiative origins. There is one quote that she heard and completely loved to explain this topic:  ''"If you don't know where are you from, you don't know where are you going"''  ''- Junior Benjarano (2019)''  Since her freshman year (2018), she has been envolved in all different kind of activities related to her major, such as the I+ Day, Meet&Greet and Open Day, activities organized by UTEC to motivate students at high-school to choose engineering and science majors. For Marcela, it is important to share our knowledge and experiences to people to get inspired and create great ideas to develop our society, that is why she has been involved founded the Student Chapter of Civil Engineering at UTEC. This way, she and her colleagues can share their major's knowledge to people interested and contribute in a few years to solve infrastructure problems inher country. She likes is also part of the process to establish an ASCE Student Chapter at UTEC.  Talking about her extracurricular activities, Marcela considers that an engineer has to work be complete both academically as well as with soft skills, empathy and a vocation for service. She realized that her freshman year was really tough academically and emotionally, based on teams and topics related this experience, she wanted to help other freshman to hydraulicavoid that them passed this difficult situations in a future, geotechnicalbecause of this she made the decision of taking part of the Peer Mentoring Program at UTEC. The objective of this program is to advice freshmen to reach their adequate incorporation to university, making sessions about freshman's interest and structural engineeringdynamic activities, all of this is made by students for students. As well her performance in this program was excellent, she was chosen as the best peer mentor of the year, this recognition also gave her the opportunity to participate asone of the 4 UTEC representatives to participate in CADEuni 2019, an event that brings together leading students from universities throughout Peru to develop their leadership and create ideas to contribute to the development of the country. Also, topics related in 2019 she was part of the Marketing and Communications area of the first edition of TEDxUTEC.   Even Marcela doesn't have an structured plan for her future after college (you will always see her with their agenda on hand, preparing her study schedules and future meetings), she knows what she wants to achieve in life. She wants to be a Civil Engineer that contributes with the decentralization of her country, connecting all departments, cities and towns so that everyone has access to educationthe basic needs of a human being such as food, home, shelter, mental health, and social laboreducation of quality.She is prepared to be an agent of change.  Would you like to be part of the change?

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