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<div style="text-align: right;">[[File:Sofialacayo.jpeg|thumb|Sofialacayo.jpeg]][[File:]]<br/></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sofia Lacayo is a 6th year medical student from the Autonomous National University of Nicaragua (UNAN-MANAGUA). She works in the medical school as a promoter of innovation among students and as a speaker on entrepreneurship issues. She is also an interpreter of the faculty in international university affairs. </span><br/></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br/></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;">She has participated for 4 years in the workshop of innovation and entrepreneurship given by the Grand Valley State University and in the recreation of this workshop in different faculties of her university. </span><br/></div><div><br/></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 2015, She participated in the call for competing funds for innovation, being selected by obtaining financial resources to achieve prototyping and promote an innovation of her creation; This opportunity made her obtain a great experience working with inventiveness, innovation, entrepreneurship and relations of agreements and resources. As a person she is animated, cheerful, supportive, honest and hardworking; since childhood she has had a creative mind, developing very well in manual arts, invention, teamwork and leadership.</span></div><div><br/></div><div><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Her favorite activities are reading, practicing swimming, supporting his her faculty extracurricularly and participating in medical brigades in the poor communities of her country</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br/></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;">As a medical student, he has worked actively teaching other students the importance of innovating in the comunities and being an entrepreneur in the health area. </span><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Her dream is to see her university as a center of reference in innovation and entrepreneurship; be the pioneer in technology education in the country, as well as a place where students enjoy and develop their ability to create.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br/></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;">she is a university innovation fellow candidate and as a candidate she has been actively working in her university community developing projects and tests in innovation and thus create a change, she plans to attend the stanford university workshop in spring 2018.</span></div>