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<span class="ng-scope" stylefont face="font-family: georgia, serif; font-" size: medium; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;="3"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">My name is Mary Dwyer, and I am is a mechanical engineering sophomore student at The Cooper Union, where she also serves on the Board of Trustees.Mary is interested in using engineering principles to solve complex problems related to</span></spanfont> <span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;">My personal and professional interests involve designing decentralized ecosystems that address existing healthcare and legal identity problems as a means to protect and empower individuals. I am focused on learning about and educating my peers on cryptographic systems and blockchain technology to efficiently approach these global issues.</span> <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">The UIF Team's main project is the Winter Intensive, but my personal project as a fellow is called "Building Bl</span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">oc</span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">ks." </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Building Blocks is a year-long project intensive in which art, architecture, and engineering students work together for Consensus Systems to build a blockchain-based application. socioeconomic inequality</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Intrinsic in every professional project is collaboration between disciplines. Blockchains can be compared to the Internet, which requires user interface and user experience design as well as full-stack development to produce a service with which humans can interact.</span></span></span> <span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;">I first joined in the Cooper community as a senior in high school to participate in Invention Factory, an intensive Cooper Union accelerator programUnited States. </span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">The selective program guides 20 students through a rigorous process of invention: Participants conceive of and prototype inventions, present their inventions each week to guest evaluators, file a provisional patent application and participate in a competition While at which a panel of distinguished designers, inventorsCooper, engineers and patent attorneys choose the best inventions. Anushree Sreedhar and I won second place she has written for our invention of the SEAL fire extingusiherschool paper, and have since been named MIT-Lemelson Finalists, Collegiate Inventor Competition Finalists, and a Venturewell E Team.&nbsp;</span></span> <span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;">Last yearplayed on the basketball team, as started a freshman, the relationships I developed with the student body enabled me to try and truly enjoy an electrical engineering course club that informed investigated the cryptographic research I did at my summer internship, play college basketball with girls I now call my best friendsfuture impact of blockchains, and get involved in school politics in created a way that empowered me and all of my classmates to work together to impact administrative decisions. I want to continue to collaborate with my classmates to improve our institution and perpetuate the ideals of Peter Cooperclass about designing higher education policy.</span>  <p style="text-align: center;">[[File:Mary Dwyer .jpg]]</p><br/>Winter Intensive at Cooper Union Proposal:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[https://goo.gl/kDN2lm https://goo.gl/kDN2lm]   Other Important Links: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cooper_Union http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cooper_Union] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cooper_Union_Student_Priorities http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cooper_Union_Student_Priorities]   Teamates: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Christopher_Watkins Christopher Watkins] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Anushree_Sreedhar Anushree Sreedhar] [http://universityinnovation.org/Giovanni%20Sanchez Giovanni Sanchez] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ruchi_Patel Ruchi Patel] [http://universityinnovation.org/Mary%20Dwyer Mary Dwyer] [http://universityinnovation.org/Pranav%20Joneja Pranav Joneja]