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I was born in Columbia, South America.

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I finished high school over there, after I
finished high school, I came to the United

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States to go… for college.

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After college I got married and start a family
and I’ve been here since.

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I work on the A-2 Test Stand as a J-2X Instrumentation
Engineer.

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A typical week consists of setting up for
test.

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We have to set up five hundred low-speed channels
and two hundred high-speed channels.

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After these channels are set up then we are
Go for test.

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I would encourage my kids to work for NASA.

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It would be the third generation of working
in the aerospace industry, my father-in-law

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worked for a contractor, on site.

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Family is very important to me; my father
worked for a paper mill in South America,

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my mother was a stay-at-home mom.

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I have a brother and a sister.

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I’m currently married and I have three kids.

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My advice to the Hispanic youth that would
like to work for NASA is to first of all stay