Know about the campaign team: Short Biographies

Jorge’s bio

Jorge H. Urrea Quintero studied at the Institución Educativa Ignacio Botero Vallejo in El Retiro where he graduated from High School. He was the student who got the best results in the ICFES test. After High School, He applied at The University of Antioquia and The Nacional University. He was accepted to study at The Nacional University where he is in his eighth semester of Control Engineering. At The Nacional University, He has participated in some research groups and is an assistant student in a research project. He plans to continue participating in research projects and later wants to earn a master's degree.

Carolina’s bio

Carolina Carrascal Grisales finished her high school in the “Liceo Jesus - Maria” in Medellin, Colombia. After that, she studied market research on the SENA, and a had an internship at “TQ Laboratorios” in the marketing department. Since then, she worked a couple of months at the “Corporación Etica”, developing and public tenders of education and environmental for the Bello municipality in Antioquia. In 2007, she began studying industrial engineering at the National University of Colombia at Medellin and plans to get her professional title in 2012. All these years she has been working in sporting events at the University to pay for her expenses. Finishes her career, she wants to travel to London to study English and then get a master's degree in engineering.

Ginna’s bio

Ginna Rosero Cabrera is student of oil engineering in the National University of Colombia, Campus Medellin. When she finished her secondary education at the Colegio Ciudad de Pasto (CCP), she studied a Technical in Construction of Structures in Bamboo at the SENA (Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje) where also became part of volleyball team placed second in the zonales. She also became part of the volleyball team at her high school where obtained several awards. Ginna always has chosen the branch of mathematics, construction and similar topics. Although the profile of an petroleum engineer isn't very consistent with his personality, she thinks that for get solutions, is most useful share her opinion and listen the opinions to others and not to impose her point of view without considering others. The patience and quietness at the right times is her virtue. For Ginna is difficult to write but is easy to perform calculations.

Yenny´s bio

Yennyfer Alvarez López studied at the Institución Lorenza Villegas de Santos, where she finished high school studies. In this moment she is studying in the National University Political Sciences and she is in ninth semester.  When she graduated from the school face the challenge  of choosing what career to study.  This was a difficult decision because he liked the law, sociology and political science. The only thing that was clear was his love for the humanities. She finally decided to study political science because from this we can understand the power and also from the social relations are organized.

During her stay in college, she has been monitor of geography course and student representative of her faculty. This is due to love for student activity. She is a passionate person and enjoys working in politics.

His Future plans include studying “Planeación urbano- regional” masters and continuing learning about social research because she is interested also in this topic.

Deisy's bio

Deisy Paola Barrera Meneses studied at Educational Institution Simon Bolivar, in Garzón- Huila. She graduated with specialization in mathematics in 2006. She studied one semester at Antioquia University and then in 2008 she passed the test at the National University of Colombia. Right now, she is in seven semester of petroleum engineering. In her department, she leads different kinds of humanitarian projects such as soup kitchens and religious youth groups. She is known for being friendly and organized. In a future she wants to apply in a scholarship for to study at the Houston University, when many researches about oil and gas industry are developed. Finally, she wants to make her mark at the University.

Mariana’s bio

When has finished his undergraduate degree, she plans to study a master's degree in finance or production, and long term, she wants to start their own business.

Mariana Pineda Giraldo studied in the “Colegio La Asunción” of  Copacabana, graduated like Academic Bachiller in the year 2004. She joined the "Universidad Nacional" in 2007, to study Industrial Engineering, now it is in his ninth semester. In 2005 he worked at a medical center called "Urgencias del Norte" in the municipality of Bello until 2008. Since 2009 he worked as a customer service adviser at the telecommunications company UNE, until 2010, during which time he worked and studied simultaneously in order to pay your study and personal needs.

CAMPAIGN PROPOSALS

v  Our Bus service should have a new logistics.

At the National University of Colombia, campus Medellin, around of 80% of the students use the bus service, two out of three students, are dissatisfied with the service, and one out of three students doesn’t use it. We consider that the number of buses is not enough, but we can’t promise to buy more. Instead of that, we propose to reorganize the logistics of our bus routes, that is to say, it will be more efficient. Buses will begin their journey from Volador to Robledo, 7:40 am, and simultaneously from  Robledo to Volador. In this way people from Robledo won’t arrive late to class in Volador. Furthermore, other big problem about the buses service is the field trips, many fields trips are cancelled because there are no buses. We will work on having an agreement between private companies and our University to use their buses for a cheaper price, student will contribute to those companies, by having their professional practice in those companies.

v  Optimization Of The actual Recycling System.

     In this age, where it is required that professionals will be more aware and give priority to the environment, it is very important to include within our professional formation at the University,  in all the careers, training about the environment friendly projects, such the reuse materials, or how to do a good environmental study at these same. With these good projects, we are expected to transform and to improve our recycling system at our own University. The main problem is that people don’t know where to throw their garbage, they don’t place it in the right bin, two out of three people, ignore the use of the system implemented.

      The wellness area university to implement a recycling system has a duty to train and acculturating people about the importance of recycling. Our proposal is to form a student group which will be responsible for carrying out awareness campaigns and recycling brigades bimonthly. The campaign will consist of educational advertising campaigns, accompanied by a carnival and some recreation activities. In addition to these measures, perform monitoring the final disposal of the garbage and recycling after collection, because it is very important that this recycling system works holistically.

v  The Food Service In The "National University" Needs To Be Improvement

Cafeterias and restaurants in our University service need to solve three main problems: quality, variety and hygiene. Many people suggest that the product offering should have a high nutritional value. Also the food in some places is not very tasty and, most of all, some laboratory studies carried out at the University have been have identified big faults in terms of hygiene in product offerings. We consider it is necessary to have a permanent and strict sanitary control over these places, weekly checks without notice will be carried out by the competent authorities; at least one nutritionist will be required to work in each cafeteria; and  more laboratory studies will be carried out to guarantee the quality if the products. Furthermore, we propose to have a ticket that will be given to our students each month and allowing them to have better prices. These proposals will be done in agreement with the University Students Welfare Office. In conclusion, we are very committed to ensure the safety and quality of food to protect health and welfare of the university community.

v  The University Should Have a Greater Number of Quotas for Residence Halls
 

The university bring about   700  students from other regions and needs to open up more seats in the dormitories for them. To achieve this we formulate a project with the community of Iguana with initial resources provided by the university and a minimum monthly fee provided by the student to provide basic infrastructure like bathrooms, beds and cooking extend to households wishing to be part of the project and host a college student. This would benefit students and neighbors of the university. The households in the project would be chosen by university employees according to established criteria. For example, they must have a room available and a space that allows the student to perform their academic work comfortably, and be a trusted family. Bimonthly reviews would be made to students and households in the project.