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Don't worry about what other\h
people think about what you like.

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If you like it know that that's enough. Yes you're\h
different but everybody is different inside.

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Hello everybody my name is Lance Foster and I'm\h
an aerospace engineer at NASA Glenn. We're working\h\h

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on technology to make really fast planes. I won't\h
even lie - like that's really cool, that's\h\h

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frankly, the dream if you're a kid that's into jets\h
and I was. I used to put together model airplanes.

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I thought I was gonna illustrate comic books\h
for a living because I had a short attention\h\h

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span and I was always drawing comics\h
everywhere I went, and in class as well.

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I've handed off the baton - my daughter draws\h
and she's better than me. I rhyme and sing,

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I'm learning to play guitar and play bass but I
would not let people watch me play guitar or bass.

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Born and raised on the south side of Chicago and I\h
lived there all the way up until I graduated high\h\h

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school, and then I went to Florida A&M University\h
in Tallahassee. I did my bachelor's and my master's\h\h

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degree in mechanical engineering at FAM. I interned\h
at NASA Glenn and actually a few other NASA sites.\h

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I've interned at NASA Ames at JPL and NASA\h
Langley. Run towards curiosity - whatever the thing\h\h

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that's so interesting to you that you just find\h
fascinating, that you just want to know all about\h\h

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it and you want to understand how it works, run\h
towards that. Kids don't look at a job description\h\h

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and go like oh uses analytical skills needs to\h
understand math to figure out what they want to be.

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Kids look at a person and go okay, I
don't know what exactly he or she does but\h\h

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but that looks all right I can see myself\h
like that, I can see myself there. So seeing people\h\h

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uh that you can connect with doing these things\h
is very important. I've been here long enough\h\h

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to see people arrive out in the lab who I\h
spoke to their class when they were students,\h\h