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Music plays - People can be heard talking

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(Adrian Soler-Luna)
I'm Cuban, originally from Cuba.

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I'm studying at Wichita State University in
Wichita, Kansas.

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I'm an intern for the summer, working on
the nano-launch project, which is project

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which is trying to deliver small payloads
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space at a lower cost.

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It's been amazing.

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It's been very
interesting.

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Working here is awesome.

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Everybody looks so happy.

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Everybody is so helpful.

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Everybody is motivated and it's been an
awesome summer.

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(Paige Green)
I'm from Anchorage Alaska.

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I'm a mechanical engineering student at
Alabama A&M University and I'm a senior.

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I've worked with NASA in the past.

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I did two
internships at Goddard Space Flight

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Center.

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It was with the NSTI program and I
wanted to continue to search for

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opportunities for this summer so I went to
the OSSI website and applied to as many

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as I could.

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It's been a great experience.

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I love the intern program that is at Marshall.

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All the activities they have for the interns,
the opportunities to connect with other

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interns.

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And I also enjoyed the mentors that
I worked with and the interns that I worked

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with.

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So, photo elasticity, it's a phenomenon
when you put a stress on a transparent

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part.

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It produces fringes because when you
shine a light through the material, it

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produces two components with different
directions and velocities.

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And the change in
velocity produces a relative retardation and

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that produces the color fringes.

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I've learned, working here, that you can
work on something for a long period of time

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and that it might not turn out the way you
want it to, so you need to think of other

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ideas to get a solution for your problem.

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It's
not always going to be one method to solve

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your problem.

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So, I learned that.