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today we are having a boys night in

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where we've invited a number of students

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from various schools in the maryland

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virginia area to come in

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spend the night learning about science

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technology engineering and math

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this evening i've come in to meet some

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very enthusiastic young men

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who are interested in stem

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which is what i'm interested in

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what we'd like to do is share our love

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and passion for what we do here at nasa

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with these students

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whether they come and work for us work

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for industry or work in the private

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sector somewhere else we want them to

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find that passion we want them to enjoy

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what we've enjoyed over the years here

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at nasa so there's students from three

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school districts here in maryland and

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one from virginia

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we came and saw the different like

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sections of engineering from building

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telescopes to weathering we used the vr

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system i saw how space communications

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work it was just a very fun day and what

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i liked about the day is we actually got

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to meet the people who do stuff here and

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they were helpful enough to actually

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lead us through the stuff that they do

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and like give us opportunities to look

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into their daily lives and what the work

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they do here is later we got to watch

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the interview from the astronaut which

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is really interesting if you go back and

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you look at any of us when we were kids

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we were excited by things that

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were risky and scary and and very few

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had done before but what it does then is

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is get you ready for the next

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journey and that's what we're hoping to

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excite these young men this evening to

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get on that journey and do things that

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no one's done before

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sometimes students confuse hard and

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impossible what we want to do is show

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those are not the same things just

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because it's hard doesn't mean we can't

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do it and i found that when you excite

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somebody's passion almost everything

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gets a little easier and that's what

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they excel at

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they gave us a problem we have to build

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the robot

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it has to travel at least one meter

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basically we have a

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space crew and we have to protect them

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from the radiation which is shown by uv

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light and we also have to make the

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shuttle move a whole meter off of a ramp

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so it's not easy but we can do it

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so the benefit for me is to have those

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students be my next pool of really smart

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and amazing people so i want to bring as

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many of them in as i can to do the

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amazing things we do here at nasa i want

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to become a mechanical engineer once i

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graduate high school so i communicated

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with a lot of other engineers i also

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talked to people who worked at nasa

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about internships which can also make my

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resume look better for when i graduate

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college so today was all in all a great

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experience for me my love for

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engineering has increased from before

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i think this is just a great program for

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all students and i didn't realize how

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many different parts go into nas just

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besides the engineering i can really see

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how like the business side of it the

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research the outsourcing there's so many

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different components that come in

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together when making an entire team

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which is really interesting

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well what struck me is though like the

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stuff that they're doing here at nasa is

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actually really involved and it's like

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it's not just science and technology

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it's stuff you can apply to every aspect

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of like any career you do

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for goddard it helps us

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to see the excitement and the enthusiasm

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of the

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newer generations next generations of

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scientists and explorers and hopefully

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to inspire them so they will come here

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and if they don't come here they'll go

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into other areas and make our nation and

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our world a better place