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Camille Wardrop Alleyne – Assistant Program
Scientist, ISS

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I am Camille Wardrop Alleyne, the Assistant
Program Scientist for the International Space

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Station here at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

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As a child, I remember at the age of 6 or
7 years old, I would be star gazing, dreaming

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about space so I attended Howard University
where I got a Bachelor of Science Degree,

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Mechanical Engineering with an Aerospace option.

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As a freshman when I migrated from Trinidad
to the United States, I really became fascinated

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with the space program and at that point,
I decided that NASA was where I wanted to

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work.

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As Assistant Program Scientist for the International
Space Station, I'm responsible for all communications

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in terms of all the science that we're doing
on the International Space Station; developing

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innovative strategies for how we communicate
the science and the research and its benefits

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to the public.

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And we use the platform as an education tool
to inspire students from all over the world

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to be excited and engaged in their studies
of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

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I was invited to go to Trinidad and Tobago
to be a part of a Caribbean youth science

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forum that brings students from all over the
Caribbean to Trinidad to be engaged in a scientific

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activity.

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And while I was there, I was able to establish
air risk [assumed spelling] connection for

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the students.

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When I was 7 and 8 years old dreaming about
space, the vastness of space and what was

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out there -- were we alone -- I would never
ever have imagined beyond my wildest dreams