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[music]

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[marching band music] One hobby that I really

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enjoy, I did baton twirling at Howard for about four

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or five years. I sing at church, I try to do

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as much vocal performing as possible. My name is

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Qi'Anne Knox, I am from Howard University. I just completed my first year

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as a PhD graduate student in computer science education.

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This summer, I'm working with Code 760 on

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their Next-Gen VoIP project, where we're converting all of the

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phones from analog lines to VoIP phones, and also with the

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Fee-for-Service web application development. My typical day is

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spent at the computer. I've been trying to learn the Django environment.

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In high school I was in music and performing arts, but I had a really strong

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interest in mathematics. And I got a lot of nudging, "Just go into computer

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science, try it out, see if you like, it." So I tried it out.

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I am interested in computer science education, and a lot of my background is in designing

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curriculum, so this really ties into, at least the web

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application portion, it ties into me being able to design successful

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curriculum in the future. So knowing how to design successful websites,

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and allowing my students to use those sites to submit homework,

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and to check their grades in a class. This is giving me good practice and a good

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step into getting that done. NASA Goddard is a very diverse community

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where you're allowed to utilize as many resources as possible to grow

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beyond your realms, and also take advantage

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of every opportunity if you choose to. [beep beep...]