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these high school students are part of a

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unique learning experience that combines

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online lessons with face-to-face

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interaction with NASA engineers and

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scientists at the Johnson Space Center

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the program is called high school

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aerospace scholars Haas for years it is

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encouraged and enlightened Texas

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students all while building a new

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workforce of scientists and engineers

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ready to serve our nation's future

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they come from all over the Lone Star

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State from small towns and large cities

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they are high school juniors interested

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in working with NASA and interested in

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science technology engineering and math

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the STEM subjects through Haas they

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discover they are not alone in those

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interests as they meet other like-minded

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Texas students with different

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backgrounds different experiences and

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fresh ideas the Haas experience of

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seeing NASA up-close and meeting the

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people who make space missions a reality

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reveals new paths for the high school

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students to explore at a critical time

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in their lives students are definitely

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making decisions about their future in

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this point about where they want to go

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to school what they want to do in

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college and and what kind of career that

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might lead to and for a lot of students

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they don't really know what a career in

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engineering is like without getting some

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kind of experience like this the high

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school aerospace Scholar Program has

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proven to have lasting effects on the

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participants as they go on to pursue

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their education and careers meet some

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hostile um Knight

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I'm interest in math and sciences always

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is and it started way back when I was a

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kid so it's just working with numbers

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it's just like a second language my name

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is on Tia chambers I work at Johnson

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Space Center in Houston Texas and I'm

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the precipitation prevention project

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manager I'm also the hardware manager of

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the compatible water containers that are

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used currently on the international

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space station I would go to Mars in a

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heartbeat I'm Allie Rutledge and I'm a

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PhD candidate in the geological sciences

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at Arizona State University

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I study planetary geology especially the

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geologic evolution of the surface of

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Mars

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my name is Cody Kelly and I'm a crew

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survival engineering here at the NASA

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Johnson Space Center so what our branch

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what my group does is we're basically

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designing the technologies that we'll

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need to extend human presence for space

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walking outside of low-earth orbit and

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there are countless other hostile um9

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many working at NASA others in STEM

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careers but all inspired by the program

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the journey of a high school aerospace

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scholar begins when they decide to sign

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up they must seek a nomination from

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their state representative to become a

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part of the program then it's time to

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study the students will work online with

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a specially constructed curriculum

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designed to prepare them for a specific

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task planning a mission to Mars so I was

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high for another you know learn all this

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stuff in addition to my normal

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educational curriculum and that was a

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huge part of it is I got to learn stuff

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that I wasn't learning in the

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traditional classroom and it has some so

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much real world application to what NASA

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was doing at the time the hostage Ernie

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continues with a week-long experience at

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the NASA Johnson Space Center it

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introduces the students to new fields

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they did not know existed so I think

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high school aerospace Scholars allows

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kids from across the state of Texas to

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come see what does that really mean what

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is it what does it mean to you learn

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math in a classroom but what does that

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mean in the real world you learn about

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science but what does that do what does

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engineers really do with its concepts I

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especially remember a tour of a biology

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lab where we got to see plants and how

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they were grown aboard the International

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Space Station and how they could be

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grown for an eventual mission to Mars

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that blew me away I think the first time

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I saw the NBL was just an incredible

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experience when you when you come up and

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you see the pool and you see just how

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big it is and to know that that's how

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they trained for space book other than

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seeing stem in action at NASA the

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students also have an important

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assignment to finish using their

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knowledge obtained from the online

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curriculum

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they create a simulated mission to Mars

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working in teams with assigned roles as

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real engineers do the students must

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analyze the challenges before them

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problem-solve and utilize critical

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thinking skills thinking as an educator

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it's hands-on stem science technology

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engineering and mathematics

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it's real-world this is you know they're

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in meetings there in deadlines they have

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pressure they have to work as a team

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along the way how students are mentored

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by NASA engineers and scientists having

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the students meet the scientists and

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engineers is probably one of the key

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elements of this program because it

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gives them the first-hand interaction

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face-to-face wow this is a real NASA

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scientist for so many years you hear

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about the NASA rocket scientist and

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you're coming Wow yeah but he's a

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scientist

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but yeah we're we're regular people and

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those kids get a feel for that and then

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they also get a feel for that I can do

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this too everybody was just really open

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to talk with you kind of our you know

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thinking oh I'm just kind of a high

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school student and this is a big

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scientist or engineer or astronaut or

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any kind of profession and you kind of

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feel a little timid to ask them

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questions but but I found as we love

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talking about our job so I asked all the

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questions that you want the students

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wrap up their Haas experience by

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presenting their Mars mission project to

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a team of actual NASA technical experts

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who will grade the assignment this work

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along with what they learned online the

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STEM careers and NASA hardware they saw

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and the people they met provides a new

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sense of direction and purpose I think

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what the experience at NASA taught me

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people that I met at NASA taught me was

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it allowed me to focus my interest a

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little bit more they grow up when they

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can look at everything and they know

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without a shadow of a doubt this is what

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I want to do do we know we can go home

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with that story so for a lot of our

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aerospace scholars they do end up going

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to college and majoring in some kind of

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stem field and if we're lucky we see

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them back here maybe as college students

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as interns and then we've had the

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opportunity to hire them several years

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later and come back and many of our

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folks now who work here as employees who

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started as high school aerospace

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scholars have become mentors for for a

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new group of aerospace scholars so for

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us it's a really great cycle I'm living

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my dream everyday I work with some of

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the greatest people here at NASA a lot

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of them are actually high school

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aerospace scholar alumni so again it's

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kind of that that Club and that culture

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that was built up by this program

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it's amazing that you know I grew up in

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those in a small town was given these

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opportunities and I'm able to to live

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from the International Space Station the

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expedition 40 crew would like to

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congratulate the aerospace Scholars

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Program your diligent work is opening

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the world of STEM education to students

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and building the workforce of tomorrow

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as aerospace scholars become part of the