SetLife has become my long-term commitment to a sustainable future when it comes to technology and its impact on society. In a world where information & communication moves at the speed of light, constraining our education to the classroom leaves us woefully under-equipped to deal with the major global problems we face. My goal is to incentivize teaching as one of the highest-paid and most valued professions, toppling the knowledge-hoarding power structures that sustain a global inequality of wealth

The SetLife Network’s project-based learning trial was a unique opportunity for me in that I was both learning about and gaining work experience in several areas at once: corporate governance, programming and design, productivity, team management, and more. I am particularly interested in how the different areas that make up an organization interact together and in working at those intersections, so I was grateful for a work environment where I had to sync up with my team every week and learn about what else was going on . And not just what my coworkers were doing but also what obstacles they were coming up against, which I think makes for more solid teamwork. That’s really not something most people get to experience in a society where work is mostly specialized into separate departments.

As a contributor I have learned to collaborate in teams, use new technologies and organize myself to make my time more productive, all while working on real and meaningful projects. Being part of the project-based learning program has made me realize you don’t need to be an expert in technology to build great products, and what you really need is dedication and a desire of learning something new. Also I realized that are a ton of resources on the internet to learn and polish your knowledge.

El programa de mentoría de SetLife me ha permitido consolidar mis conocimientos de programación colaborando de forma directa en su desarrollo. El uso de nuevas herramientas y de software actual me han hecho evolucionar rápidamente y adquirir mejores prácticas de implementación de código y de comunicación a la hora de colaborar con otras personas dentro de un mismo proyecto. Como desarrolladora de software he cumplido uno de mis objetivos: poner en práctica aquellos conocimientos que quedan sin profundizar en el aula gracias a la metodología del aprendizaje basado en proyectos. Actualmente mis habilidades tecnológicas siguen evolucionando de una forma más efectiva y en un ambiente de trabajo que estimula la autonomía y el crecimiento profesional.