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we're at nasa's goddard space flight

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center in greenbelt maryland where it's

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hot it's humid and that means we're

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excited to welcome over 250 summer

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interns from all over the united states

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these interns are studying a wide range

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of subjects hoping that at the end of

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their internship they'll find a space of

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their own let's go check inside the

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visitor center and ask them some

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questions as they get ready for their

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are you excited to be here today i'm

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really excited it's uh pretty surreal

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actually this is a dream come true are

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you nervous

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yeah

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i'm a little bit nervous because it's my

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first time here in nasa but i've met a

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lot of you know nice people that have

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been helping me throughout the way which

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make me feel you know my home away from

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home it's been really nice so what is

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the one thing that you're looking

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forward to the most i think the one

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thing i'm looking forward to most is

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learning from other interns as well as

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my mentor

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i'm really excited to get to

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try to communicate some really complex

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and awesome science in a way that people

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can understand and engage with and

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really get a lot out of i actually want

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to explore the center want to see like

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the offices how nasa works like get to

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know people that work here and

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you know learn a lot uh let it be an

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accounting major but know about space

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more yeah this is the right place i

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think yeah i actually want to take you

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know a whole lot of new experiences well

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that i can take back home and then tell

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my friends about them and encourage them

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to do a so you know get out of their

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comfort zone we know that english is in

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our first language so that's like a

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little challenging but i feel like if i

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can do it anyone's gonna do it honestly

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i'm hoping to learn more about just like

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uh get experience in my field uh learn

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more about just like space in general so

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i'm really excited

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i'm looking to learn more about hardware

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things related to my major

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meet a lot of people and have a good

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time

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what are you going to be doing here for

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this summer i'm going to work with the

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mass spectrometer it's related to moon

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and we're going to detect some of the

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substances that are detected on the moon

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using the laser ablation from the earth

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um right now it looks like i'm going to

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be working with like hyperspectral

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imaging systems and plant vegetation my

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projects are going to revolve around

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working with social media writing about

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projects that are going on at nasa and

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making it more digestible for a general

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audience i am going to be working on the

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pandora project which is a spectrometer

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that is used to study trace gases in

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earth's atmosphere so my the name of my

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project is modular mechanisms for space

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flight instruments and i'm going to be

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using a via shield which is a hard

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hardware description language and maybe

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some uh ppc pcb programs to make pcbs

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this summer i'm a remote sensing analyst

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intern so i'm working on the eos earth

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search data tool and so i'll be updating

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the metadata repository and i think i

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might be doing a little bit of python

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coding but i'm not entirely sure about

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now that the summer interns are finished

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with their orientation it's time for

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them to meet their mentors and start

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their projects

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if you're interested in pursuing a nasa

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internship visit intern.nasa.gov

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and to hear more intern stories check