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My name is Danielle Wood, and I am a doctoral student studying engineering

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systems at MIT. I am also interning currently

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at both Goddard Space Flight Center, as well as at NASA Headquarters,

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working in the Innovative Partnerships Program, interested in how NASA

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technology that has been spun out into society can be of use to developing

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countries.

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I actually spent about nine months

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traveling literally around the world. I visited countries in Europe,

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Africa, the MIddle East, and Southeast Asia, and I was

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learning about the trend among several countries to begin new satellite

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programs and to train engineers who come from many disciplines.

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It's exciting to see how they see the process of learning about satellite technology

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as part of their national development. The longer

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that I've been involved with NASA programs, the more exciting it is to see

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all the different roles people can have within NASA. So my initial internships

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were very focused on particular teams, doing technical goals,

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Now I'm getting to know people whose job it is to communicate to society

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the value of investing in NASA research and also connecting