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I think the students are here really to

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know what it's like to build a Sahni

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Rocket payload really what NASA does

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best is you know not only inspiring but

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connecting people with space so rock on

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is just one of those steps that create

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those openings for students around the

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country to have some real-world hands-on

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experience with a connection to an

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actual spaceflight I think one of the

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most rewarding things for me is seeing

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the transformation of the students

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throughout the workshop by the time it's

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Monday or Tuesday and we're getting

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ready for integration there high-five

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and the helpers helpers all know them by

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name and it's just great seeing this

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transformation of someone who's so close

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off someone who's completely broken out

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of their shell when I interact with

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students I want them to feel comfortable

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I want them to have fun because I feel

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like that's when they're gonna learn

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their most it's not uncommon for me when

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I'm working with students to be in

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costume today even I'm Captain Picard

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from the Starship Enterprise

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try to break down walls when I'm working

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with students and faculty but suddenly

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the focus is on the crazy guy and not do

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I belong here so they're most

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comfortable ready to have fun but also

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ready to learn we have students end up

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soldering on to on resistors and

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capacitors and LEDs and a bunch of other

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connectors and they filled all that up

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we run them through code Monday we

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finish up the coding and then we put

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everything on the plate do a final

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check-in and we integrate to the

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canisters and it's just a whirlwind of a

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day there are students here who aren't

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engineering students are you know we're

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just majoring in physics or chemistry

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and we had a couple humanities people

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here and then then they came out with a

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rocket payload so it doesn't really

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matter where you're from what your

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background is you can do it

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it's just a really unique experience I

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think everyone should do it even if

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they're not interested in engineering or

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anything space-related it's just cool

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I haven't meant to launch before viola

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feeling that it's gonna be kind of

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surreal I've seen on TV before seeing it

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in person it's actually a blessing I'm

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expecting it to be loud I'm expecting it

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to be big and I'm expecting it to be fun

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oh so excited like every time I think

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about it my heart starts racing and I'm

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like okay yep

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I'm waiting for that day launch is

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definitely the highlight to see that

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thing ignite so everyone still counts

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it's hard to take your eyes off the

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flame but if you do just for that moment

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you see life happening all around you

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their brains are recording this for the

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rest of their lives their experience

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something that they've worked hard for

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and to me that's almost as exciting as

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watching the launch I also feel as if

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you can learn the stuff here you're all

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ready for take the next steps towards

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what you want to do in the future I

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think just having you know a student who

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clearly been affected by rock on in this

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way in terms of their personality in

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terms of their confidence level kind of

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speaks to the success of the program it

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doesn't really matter if your experiment

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comes back and it didn't work we like to

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make sure that people are comfortable

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here and I think that we do a good job

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doing that and everyone leaves here

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pretty satisfied with the program

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so I can say whenever I want okay rock