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MAGIC

Mentee Final Presentation

Colegio Marista Anjo Da Guarda

06/14/2022

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Agenda

    • A few words from MAGIC Ambassador Luanna Quinalha
    • Project Presentations
      • Carina Dechant, MAGIC mentee
        • Ivone: relating healthcare & investment data for Leprosy treatment
      • Luanna Quinalhs, MAGIC intern
        • MAGIC Mentee Alum Group
        • MAGIC Instagram

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Carina Dechandt

10th grade| Marista Anjo da Guarda | Curitiba, Brazil

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My Mentor

  • Emma
  • Works at Google
  • Graduated at Columbia
  • From New York
  • Likes to:
    • Run
    • Write
    • Programing/Coding
    • Read books

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My Project

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HANSEN'S DISEASE

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DISEASE

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DATA ANNALYSIS

CODING

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BIOLOGY

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Hansen's Disease - Leprosy

Why leprosy?

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  • Neglected Tropical Disease
  • Fundation
  • Unpopular, but important

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Leprosy

  • Caused by the Mycobacterium leprae, or hansen's bacillus
  • Chronic
  • Affects the skin, the peripheral nerves, mucosal surfaces of the upper respiratory tract and the eyes
  • Old aged
  • Occur within 1 year but can also take as long as 20 years or even more
  • Skins lesions and smers
  • Paucibacillary leprosy (PB)
  • Multibacillary leprosy (MB).
  • Transmitted via droplets, from the nose and mouth, during close and frequent contact with untreated cases

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Treatment

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SINCE 1981

WHO recommends MDT

WHO provides for free cost and has an agreement with Novartis until 2025.

6 months for pauci-bacillary and 12 months for multi-bacillary cases

1960

Rifampicin and clofazimine added to the treatment

Both medicaments were discovered and subsequently added to the treatment regime. Now called MDT

1940

Use of Dapsone

This treatment lasted many years

BEFORE 1940

No treatment

People were only left on lepers

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Countrys

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CORRELATIONS

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CASES REGISTERED FOR TREATMENT

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  • New Cases and Cases registerd for treatment

NEW CASES AMONG CHILDREN <15 YEARS OLD

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  • New cases among children and Cases registered for treatment
  • GDP per capita and New cases among children

GDP PER CAPITA (2005-2020)

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  • GDP per capita and Cases registered for treatment

NEW CASES (2005-2020)

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  • New Cases and GDP per capita
  • New Cases and New cases among children

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HIGHLIGHTS of the CORRELATIONS

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0.96566652

INDONESIA

Indonesia's correlation between cases registered for tratment and new cases among children. Both go high togheter.

-0.80011856

INDIA

India's correlation between new cases among children and GDP per capita. When one gets higher, the other goes low.

0.88254458

BRAZIL

Brazil's correlation between new cases and new cases among children. Both go high togheter.

0.92246024

INDIA

India's correlation between cases registered for tratment and new cases among children. Both also go high togheter

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TRÓPICO DE CÂNCER

LINHA DO EQUADOR

TRÓPICO DE CAPRICÓRNIO

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My MAGICal Experience

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Choices

Be more open minded

Ways

There's more than one way to figured things out

Opposites

Combain different things may work

English

Talking and writing with natives improves a lot your english

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Challenges

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Finding data

Working internationally

Time zones and holidays, besides the language may difficult things

Programing

Learning something totally different from zero it's difficult

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Thank you!

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Questions

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Luanna

12th, Colégio Marista Anjo da Guarda, Brazil

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My Mentor

  • Smriti Pramanick
    • Software engineer at Google (NYC)
    • Works in Search, using ML for search query understanding
    • From the Bay Area
    • Minor in music, Master’s at Music Technology Lab, competitive Bollywood fusion dance team at MIT
    • Loves CS, interdisciplinarity
    • Baking and cooking

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My Project - Mentee Alum Group

  • 14 years of alums
  • Created alum group for mentees to keep in touch with MAGIC (and each other)
    • Chose platform (Discord) - research, survey
    • Set up the group and worked with ambassadors to onboard
    • Created long-term plan

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My Project - Mentee Alum Group

  • Topics and technologies learned
    • Discord permissions
    • Google Sheet functions
  • Future work
    • New channels for engagement

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My Demo - Mentee Alum Group

What it looks like so far, including:

  • General and random
  • Welcome channels
    • Server suggestions (poll)
  • MAGIC sessions channels
    • ambassadors

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My Demo - Mentee Alum Group

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My Project - Instagram Account

  • Created MAGIC’s Instagram account to reach a younger audience
    • Picked appropriate account
    • Planned themes/branding (+posting schedule)
    • Created templates and posts
    • Created long-term plan
    • Training recording
    • Captions template

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My Project - Instagram Account

  • Topics and technologies learned
    • Canva
    • Buffer
  • Future work
    • Training
    • Start posting!
    • Takeovers

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My Demo - Instagram Account

Some example posts:

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My Demo - Instagram Account

Some example posts:

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My MAGICal Experience

  • Completely different from mentorship experience!
    • Trying something new and unfamiliar (social media)
    • Giving back to MAGIC
    • Thinking about the organization and long-term plans
    • Working with Smriti, a supportive, incredibly smart, and amazing mentor!

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Thank you!

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Questions?

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