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Since her freshman year (2018), she has been envolved in 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 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 in her country. She is also part of the process to establish an ASCE Student Chapter at UTEC. Marcela is very passionate about her career, so much so that this year she wanted to contribute to improving it, which is why she is currently the Spokeswoman of the Civil Engineering major, this initiative gives her the opportunity to create “meets & greetsgreets”, integration events and feedback forums on courses (everything in a virtual way).

Even Marcela doesn't have an structured plan for her future after college (you will always see her with their her 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 the basic needs of a human being such as food, home, shelter, health and education of quality. She is preparing to be an agent of change.