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Visionary is important to Mayaguez and Puerto Rico because it is not afraid to work with and empower others with brand new technologies. Visionary hosted the first ever VR Hackathon in Puerto Rico causing a huge wave that was felt across the island. People that had never coded or touched a VR headset were able to create a VR experiece in less than 12 hours. VR/AR/MR are very versatile tools that have an overwhelming amount of applications. To take advantage of the technology and ride the wave, one must be Visionary!

== [[Alejandro Aponte|Alejandro Aponte]] - The UPRM MakerSpace: E.P.I.C-Labs (Entrepeneuship, Prototyping and Innovation Community Laboratories) ==

<div><span style="font-size:large;"><span style="color:#333399;"><span style="font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif;">'''Project Overview'''</span></span></span></div>

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== [[Jaran Arroyo|Jaran Arroyo]]- Elicit ==

<p style="text-align: justify;">When you hear the word Elicit, you get all those neurons in your brain activated, you get a jolt of energy, even of inspiration. Feeling all those things from a single word. The creativity that emerges from the word “Elicit” entices even the ones that argue to be the least creative. For me Elicit should mean everything, it should be the beginning and the end. It should be the start and finish. Everything, is an understatement for the principles I want to establish.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify;">A little history about Elicit, it all starts from the inception of the revolutionary student organization Idea Platform, (a product from a UIF Fellow) Elicit was the first tribe ever founded. It was the melting pot of everything revolutionary at the moment on campus. That grew into becoming the biggest tribe of the organization, with skills ranging from storytelling and filmmaking to coding and writing. Our people were the most diverse of them all. We had students from every single faculty on campus, it was fantastic. Fast tracking to the present, we’re currently pivoting our mission and vision. I feel that Elicit has lost the spark that once influenced. Jaran’s mission, my mission is to acquire as much knowledge from the UIF Network so I can inject that passion and enthusiasm again.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify;">My mission as a Fellow is to find the tools needed for me to develop the best place for interdisciplinary students to be. I want to create a place where engineers can work on art, business people make things from scratch and science people could develop their artistic abilities. We are in 2018, the time for humans to have just one interest, is a thing of the past. This new dawn of hybrid disciplines is what has brought arguably, the best and brightest innovations this world has ever seen. Steve Jobs is just an example of the hundreds from these hybrids, him personally mixing Electrical Engineering with Marketing and Design, allowed the creation of arguably the biggest and most consumer innovative company, ever. Elicit should be our campus’ most innovative place with the most diverse people. I am determined to make this ideal happen.&nbsp;</p>

With the passage of Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico's agriculture was completely destroyed, leaving losses of $780 millions and there are forecasts of not being able to produce food for a year or longer. Puerto Rico needs to know more efficient ways to manage information, resources, establish viable public policies and mainly encourage the local economy to get out of this situation as soon as possible. Quite possibly students have the conditions and knowledge necessary to solve many of these problems. This is why as a student I think that the best way to demonstrate that we have the potential to have an impact in the country, we must change our University and in this way begin the change and transformation by ourselves.

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><kbd>[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1J3FBn41mJzG9SNQFYhQ1i-cprT86qXlwlbYpPMOqvv4/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1J3FBn41mJzG9SNQFYhQ1i-cprT86qXlwlbYpPMOqvv4/edit?usp=sharing]</kbd></span>

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Puerto_Rico_-_Mayaguez <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><kbd>Mayaguez</kbd></span>]