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My name is Charles Doxley.

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I work at the NASA Glenn Research Center for
the avionics division.

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I'm an electronics engineer, and I work for
the compatibility test sets project.

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I have a Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics
from Albany State University in Albany, Georgia

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and a Master's Degree from Tuskegee University
in Tuskegee, Alabama.

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Compatibility test sets project is the next
generation compatibility test set which is

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replacing the compatibility test sets van,
and what we do is we test future space radios

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to make sure they are compatible with the
TDRSS tracking and data relay satellite system.

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So they don't cause damage when you connect
to them.

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The opportunity to work at NASA seemed so
exciting to me that I actually held off the

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completion of my thesis and came to NASA Glenn
Research Center and worked three co-op rotations

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consecutively just so I can have an opportunity
at a job.

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And once I was done with my co-ops, I was
hired on directly after I went back to Tuskegee

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for two weeks and presented my master's thesis.

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I think Black History month is extremely important.

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One of the most important things about the
current state of Black History Month is just

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learning about our heritage and what we've
come from and the struggles that African-Americans

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have been through to get to the point that
they are today.

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To now understand that anything is possible.

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We see African-American presidents—President,
Barack Obama.

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We see African-American Superbowl champions,
Russell Wilson.

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So now, the goal in the African-American community,
and about just black history in general, should

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be understanding that anything is possible,
but how can we make things more probable.

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We need more youth involved in STEM in general—science,
technology, engineering, and mathematics—whether

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they're black, white, Asian, Latino, Native
American.

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Currently, in America we're in the technology
age.

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So, if we want to continue to grow and be
one of the leading nations in the world, we

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have to invest in STEM and our young people
in STEM.