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thank you for joining us here at the

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mission control center at the johnson

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space center i'm joined today by

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trenesha dixon who is our project lead

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for the micro g next student

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undergraduate student program thanks so

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much for joining us thank you for having

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me so let's start by just telling us

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about the micro g next experiment

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so micro g next is an opportunity for

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undergraduate students

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to design and construct their own eba

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tools this year we focused on

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spacewalk tools and how we could use

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those for an upcoming asteroid mission

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and

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what kind of challenges are you giving

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these students

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the students have the same challenges

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our eva engineers have here at nasa and

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so there are actually five that we

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presented to them and they would they

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would take on the ones that they felt

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comfortable taking on

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one of the most popular was the rock

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chip sampler and so that when they had

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to design a tool that would actually

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chip off a portion of an asteroid

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collect the sample without any

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cross-contamination

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these are intense challenges for these

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students how do you actually test them

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when the students come here to the nbl

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for that what we call a test week we

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treat them just as the as they're

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they're the engineers here and so they

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go through a test readiness review with

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the safety board at the nbl

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our professional divers will dive with

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the tools and the students act as the

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test conductors so they conduct the

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dives and do the the real time

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communication with the divers while they

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go through the simulations so they get

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the full experience as if they were

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working here as part of the nasa team

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this is a real world experience for them

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so i've heard that earlier this summer

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you already had some student teams come

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how did that go

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it was quite fantastic and especially

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considering this is our first year of

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the program

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it coincided with our 50th anniversary

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of evas near nasa which was great and so

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the students came in they were quite

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professional

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they enjoyed their interaction with the

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divers and meeting our smes here at nasa

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so we have a whole new inspired

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generation that's going to probably be

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aspiring to join the nasa team maybe huh

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we do they're they're a part of our

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technology drives exploration

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here at nasa so i understand that we

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have a an interactive event coming up on

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wednesday can you tell us about that we

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do this is our live webcast and we do

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this as an opportunity for the students

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to tell their story and so each team

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will have an opportunity to talk about

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their what we call the microgenex

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journey so

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what they accomplished how they

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accomplished it and how it impacts their

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their lives moving forward and how it

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impacts nasa and how can people

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participate in that people everyone can

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join in um

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to the live stream on the jsc ustream

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channel on wednesday it'll air at 10 30

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eastern fantastic well thanks so much

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for joining us today it sounds like a

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really exciting student program and

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we're excited to hear more about it

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thank you again this is tradition the