Changes

Talking about her extracurricular activities, Marcela considers that an engineer has to 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 this experience, she wanted to help other freshman to avoid that them passed this difficult situations in a future, because 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 dynamic activities, all of this is made by students for students. As 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 as one 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, in 2019 she was part of the Marketing and Communications area of the first edition of TEDxUTEC. Nowadays Until last year, she is still was collaborating in the Peer Mentoring Program and participating in Peer Coaching, a new initiative of student counseling in UTEC. Nowadays, she is helping as a Faculty Champion in her home university to orientate the new candidates of the UIF Program and also advisoring as UIGuide to Latin-American universities to train new change agents.

At present, Marcela has already a plan for her future. She wants to be a multidisciplinary Civil Engineer focused , on one hand, on Urban Planning, connecting all departments, cities and towns so that everyone has access to the basic needs of a human being by applying new technologies, she wants to be part of a new generation of engineers with a humanistic profile, and also (after her experience abroad) be immersed in the investigation field, specifically in Natural Sciences. At presentIn spite of all her plans, she shares always has in mind sharing all her knowledge learned in the UIF program to prepare new agents of changehelp her environment to be better each day.