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part of my job is to help other

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employees do their job by giving them

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the tools that they may need for myself

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I am blind and so I use assistive

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technology to help me complete

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assignments on the computer or interact

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with others I received my undergraduate

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degree from the University of Arkansas

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that was a big accomplishment for me

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because I originally grew up in a

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neighborhood that was challenged or

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played by you know either violence or

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poverty being in Arkansas or in a place

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where you don't necessarily have real

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immediate role models around you that

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look like you are who are in those

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fields of science and engineering that

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sometimes you have to dream bigger and

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reach out farther if your goal is become

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an engineer and work at NASA contact our

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education office get plugged into

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programs that are targeted to minorities

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or students with disabilities because

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those are the programs that will address

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those challenges that you'll face