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bright young minds curious and probing

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young adults with the ability to

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comprehend complex problems and solve

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these students each possess unique

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talents that have cultivated will

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answering a need to ensure that these

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students go on to success

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is nasa's summer high school

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apprenticeship research program

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the program is an opportunity attracting

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young achievers with an interest in

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science and engineering

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founded in 1979 as a program designed to

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attract and serve underrepresented

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minorities

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the sharp program is helping to produce

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many scientists engineers and

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technicians who someday work for nasa or

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sharp students are getting the

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opportunity to focus in

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focus in on how you might use science

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and math and i really see that after

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they spend a few weeks really eight

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weeks rubbing elbows with engineers they

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begin to see what it's like to be an

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electrical engineer a mechanical

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engineer an aerospace engineer the

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really nuts and bolts of it and it helps

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them focus in a little bit more in terms

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of seeing how they might one day be in

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i like working with young people they're

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exciting they're full of energy they're

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full of enthusiasm

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these young people are have the energy

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to burn and they want to be an exciting

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place and reach out and really

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see that they can make a contribution

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in the program students are exposed to a

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scientific and technical work

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environment

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through interaction with nasa mentors

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they receive an insight into possible

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career opportunities

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they're here

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eight weeks to work directly with the

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engineers and with the in the technical

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field and to basically not only learn

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some specific technical duties

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but to understand what engineering is

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all about in a general sense as a mentor

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i work with the students in trying to

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encourage them in the engineering

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science and technology field

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i also try to get them to interact with

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the other engineers in my section

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programs like this get people exposed to

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the to the real world to the process of

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learning on a job which they're going to

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have whether they're in school or at

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given real world tasks and problems to

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solve these enthusiastic youth put their

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energy to work pushing the limits to

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come up with workable answers

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solutions that will actually be used

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because the projects that they work on

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are real projects

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i try to give them challenging projects

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usually projects that are above their

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head a little that makes them try a

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little harder

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and i think they really get a lot out of

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the sharp program takes place at most

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nasa facilities

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at kennedy space center students learn

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about test checkout and launch of space

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vehicles

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across the country at ames research

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center projects concentrate on computer

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science for flight research and

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at langley in hampton virginia the focus

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is on research and development of

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advanced air and spacecraft systems

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the summer high school apprenticeship

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research program is a major commitment

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its purpose is to make minority students

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aware of career opportunities and to

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encourage them to attain higher

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education it's been

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thrilling 11-year span i have seen more

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than 190 kids come through the program

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received tremendous benefits from the

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program

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as a matter of fact

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more than 98 of those students who've

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entered the program have gone on into

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science math high tech type careers

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students demonstrating an interest in

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these fields participate in projects

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that are as diverse as the nasa centers

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in the shop program i'm learning how to

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run the diagnostic tests on the

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experimental computer which simulates

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it's very educational it's an experience

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to be here

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test carriage with tet which tests

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aircraft tires for jet planes and if

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when they land how much wear there is

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and we check

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how much wear there is on the tire after

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every run i learned about a lot of

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different areas of engineering that

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i don't think i ever would have known

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about i've been working with the

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the computer simulation software

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simulation of the f-18 so i spent a lot

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of time on there and then different

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programs are used to evaluate the data

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i'm getting out of the simulation

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there is a lot of learning involved

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there's a lot of learning and a lot of

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hands-on experience and those are the

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two real benefits of the program

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in my area we're working on the pfma

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which is the prototype

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and i'm tele-operating the

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pfma when i first came here on the first

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day i went to this meeting

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it was like i was flooded with all this

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information and i could barely pick out

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anything that they were saying and the

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more that i read the more i understood

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work with the arm then it then it all

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starts to fall in place and i actually

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the value of the sharp program cannot be

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underestimated

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of the more than 1200 apprentices who

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have participated since 1979

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many have gone on to become engineers

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and scientists for nasa and private

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industry

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it is important to recognize that as we

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move toward the future

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the numbers of young people available to

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fill important research positions is

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a strong effort must be made to capture

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the talent of these youth

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sharp is playing an important role in

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directing underrepresented minorities

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into an area we must be concerned about

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as a nation

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it can become even more

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if our country is to be strong in

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science and engineering it will take the

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students of today to do it

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and without a doubt they're going to be

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our future and we'd like to be our

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future engineers constructive and

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developing and building our country that

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we can confront the year 2000 we can

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confront the future and that may be also

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mean not only on this planet but out in

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further

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outreaches and outposts in space

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sharp is a success and is a model for

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other programs to follow