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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Jaymie Marie Velasquez was born and raised in Santa Fe, NM but has been in Las Cruces, NM since 2011 for college. She is As a LOVER of learning and knowledge, (which comes from her mother who is a Kindergarten teacher and my dad who is a rancher turned civil engineer), and she has spent her college undergraduate career just being inspired by all the different kinds of people around herfrom all walks of life. College needed She was fortunate to be about new experiences complete a large portion of her foreign languages degree in Costa Rica, where she developed a profound love of engineering principles and true learningsolving real world problems such as safe transportation and clean drinking water. She considers herself is by nature a literary mind, and would at some point love aspires to get a graduate degree in literature or Chicano studies, but at the moment is finishing up her undergraduate degree Bachelor's of Science in Chemical Engineering.</span>
Starting the NMSU Aggie Innovation Space from the ground up, and working as an undergraduate technical intern at Intel Corporation has enhanced her passion for student engagement outside the classroom, and has taught her that the true value in education extends much farther than the confines of a lecture hall. At this point, she is not certain uncertain as to what the her next step will be upon completion of her undergraduate degreesgraduation, but is deeply passionate about STEM education, curriculum instruction, technology development, and will endeavor to pursue excellencewhile helping others achieve success in whatever ways possible.
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/New_Mexico_State_University New Mexico State University]