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i'm ellen ochoa director of nasa's

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johnson space center i'd like to welcome

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you to today's event

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each year nasa joins the nation in

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observing hispanic heritage month

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hispanics have shaped and strengthened

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the fabric of this country through

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contributions and accomplishments that

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span every facet of american society

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here at nasa we welcome and rely on the

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diverse backgrounds perspectives and

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ideas of all of our talented workforce

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and i'm personally so grateful that i've

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had the opportunity to be a valued

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member of the nasa team for almost 30

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years sharing in our joint achievements

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the hispanic outreach and leadership

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alliance team has assembled a stellar

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lineup of talent from across the nation

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today's speakers will discuss the

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importance of hispanic representation in

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stem education and careers and highlight

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successes and challenges these are

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important topics because our future

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success depends on our ability to

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continue to attract the best and

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brightest and then develop our workforce

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and future leaders

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[Applause]

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good morning buenos dias

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thank you so much for being here at nasa

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headquarters welcome and to those

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watching online thank you for joining us

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today we will celebrate

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hispanic heritage month here at nasa we

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take a moment to acknowledge the rich

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history beauty diversity

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contributions and accomplishments of the

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hispanic community across the nation

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so i'm so thrilled to have you here

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today this is the second year we have

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planned activities for nasa headquarters

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my name is maria santos and i'm the

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chair of the hispanic outreach and

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leadership alliance group here also

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known as hola

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ola's mission is basically to foster

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awareness and promote the contributions

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of the hispanic community here at nasa

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to create and facilitate collaborative

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cross-cultural opportunities and to

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encourage the recruitment and

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professional development of a highly

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skilled and diverse workforce

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so i was thinking

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you know this takes a few months to plan

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an activity like this

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and i kept thinking about what we wanted

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to focus on this year

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and my team and i were debating

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what the focus should be

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but then one day it just

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hit me after reading an article about

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the

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us population

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the u.s labor workforce and the

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education system

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in this country and then it hit me that

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latinos stem up it's time

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it's time to stem up not only

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because it's a necessity but it's a

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social obligation not only for

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hispanics um in the country but also

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across the board professionals educators

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it's important because

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hispanics comprised almost 18 percent of

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the us population and growing

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nowadays about 25

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students in

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k-12 schools

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are hispanics

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so that got me thinking okay

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so it's a growing population and then i

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looked into it to more and it's a very

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young population it's actually two to

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three years younger than the average of

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non-hispanic american

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so what does this mean this basically

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means that hispanics will be

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have been and will continue to be a

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great contributor to this country's

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political educational systems right so

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what are we doing

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to not only

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encourage hispanics to go into stem

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fields because science technology

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engineering and mathematics is important

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especially for us here at nasa stem is

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what we do

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how do we prepare these students to go

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into stem how do we prepare

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individuals to

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grow within those stem careers as well

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so today i'm very excited because we

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have an amazing panel

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from across nasa so this is an

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agency-wide initiative here and we also

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are so thrilled to have

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our national professionals here

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recognized in their fields in their stem

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fields across the country

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so i think you're in for a really good

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good uh panel discussion here i hope you

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enjoy it um but i did want to share a

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little bit about myself so that you

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understand where i'm coming from

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and this is just between us i haven't

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really told many people this right

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i'm actually an immigrant so my family

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moved to the states in the 1980s

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during the civil wars in el salvador uh

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so for me

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hearing bombs going off in the distance

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and watching people walk around with you

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know uh rifles was common occurrence so

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uh we left when i was about six years

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i'm the youngest of eight

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first to go to college

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actually second to go to college because

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i have a sister who went to a community

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college so she actually paved the way

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but i say all that to say that when we

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moved here

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we did not know the language we did not

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know anyone in this country we ended up

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in a tiny little place called parish

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florida

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i didn't know anyone that looked like me

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that went to college or held a

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professional career and it wasn't

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because i actually had

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a couple guidance counselors and a lady

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from the school board who actually

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believed in me and got me into the upper

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bound program and

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which changed my life and so

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i was then afforded the opportunity to

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apply and got accepted to

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different colleges and universities well

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then the real hurdle came which was

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having to tell my mother that her

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youngest child

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female

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was going to leave home right four hours

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it was unheard of and of course she said

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no because it's you know she's she

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didn't understand the importance of

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having me go off and go to college so

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actually was hearing from my teachers my

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guidance counselors anybody and

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everybody who could speak to her

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to try to encourage her to let me go

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basically and my mother said no if she

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wants to study she can go down the

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street to the community college

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but um i got full ride you know full

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scholarships and so they felt my my

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counselors felt that it would be a waste

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for me to let that just go eventually my

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my hero put her foot down and she said

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no she's going she actually packed my

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stuff in her little car and drove me off

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to college my mother would not go to

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drop me off to college

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so i ended up you know graduating and

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this and that and i started my federal

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career about 10 years ago

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and my background is in human resources

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so i had access to data and i was just

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surprised at the fact that

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we had this population that kept growing

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you know the research was there the

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stats were there

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but yet it wasn't representative across

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federal government and so i got involved

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with employee resource groups trying to

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bring this forward and trying to

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show listen the research is there the

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stats are there there's something that

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we have to do to prepare right we need

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to look forward and prepare the the next

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or the future workforce

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needless to say nowadays my mother is

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the biggest advocate for education there

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anybody and everybody she meets she

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introduces me as this is my daughter

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maria she works at nasa

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right and then she talks to every kid

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that she meets every young person that

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she meets and encourages them to get

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that education and so

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you know that's just

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one story my story is not unique i'm

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sure a lot of us share that story and i

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wanted to share it today because like i

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said it's not unique it's pretty common

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within the hispanic community

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which is why we have to keep

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pushing for education pushing for the

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importance of going into stem fields

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pushing for

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um just preparation in general

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not only within the hispanic community

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i'm so excited to have actually mr elvis

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moderate this pound of discussion for me

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today i actually know elvis on a

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personal level he's one of the first

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people that i met when i first moved to

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dc you know i moved to dc not knowing

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impressed he has such energies

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enthusiasm always willing to go above

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and beyond to help his community and so

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when i was looking for someone who could

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lead such a distinguished panel i

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couldn't think of anybody better than

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elvis

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so let me share a little bit about mr

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he was appointed by president obama to

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serve various leadership roles at the

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u.s department of agriculture

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he was most recently served as acting

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under secretary at the u.s department of

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agriculture where he helped to

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strengthen and advance u.s agricultural

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interests worth about 150 billion

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dollars annually he oversaw food

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labeling programs including organic and

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regulations and expansion of regional

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food systems he also serves as the white

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task force for puerto rico

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focusing on building private

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at usda he also focused on the

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development and implementation of

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outreach strategies to foster diversity

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inclusion and innovation as well as

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boosting investments aid

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aimed at enhancing the delivery of our

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cultural education programs to

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underserved population

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he became a federal employee as

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eventually went to energy

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where he worked on alternative energy

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you know outside of federal government

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he's been the vice president of public

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relations at tolkien media director of

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public american programs a self-reliance

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foundation and a consultant for united

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nations um so he's he's kind of a big

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deal i'm excited that he's here um i do

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want to say though that uh we will have

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a question and answer portion later on

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and we know we have a lot of

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people

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logging on online so we encourage you to

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send in your questions so

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later on we will open it up and please

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feel free to email your questions we'll

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take about two or three questions

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you can email them at hq

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hola mail.nasa.gov

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i'm sure they'll put it up thank you

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again hq hola mail.nasa.gov

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and we will take those questions from

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our online audience that being said

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please

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join me in welcoming our moderator and

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maria and uh buenos dias to all of you

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it's uh such a pleasure to be here um

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i'll tell you a story in a minute but

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just know that since i was little i've

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thought of being at nasa

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uh and so being here it's surreal i keep

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pinching myself to just make sure i'm

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not dreaming um but i really want to

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thank maria in the hola team for putting

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together such an amazing event

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i know the work that you've put into it

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the thought that you put into it

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and so i just really want to thank you

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and just give you a moment to shine

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because you and your team

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have really

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thought this out really well and i think

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what can come out of this is going to be

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important so if we could just please

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give them a round of applause for all

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and on a personal note thank you for

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helping a personal dream come true and

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bringing me here um

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so

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one of the things we want to do here

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today is we want to start a conversation

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and we want this conversation that later

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lead to action

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so what we do here today is going to be

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important because it'll instill the

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thoughts that can take action later

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and so we definitely want all of you to

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participate not only today but beyond

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today and really help continue this

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movement

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we hope that we'll be able to provide

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you with enough seeds for you all to

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grow

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some amazing endeavors later on uh and

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what i want to do is i want to take a

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moment to recognize our panel and and

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have them do small intro quick intros

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about the work that they're doing

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because they're just absolutely stellar

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no pun intended

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and they're doing some amazing things

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and i'd like to start off with dr marla

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perez david who's the deputy center

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director for the nasa glenn research

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center

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dr perez davis if you could give us a

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quick synopsis of your work

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good morning buenos dias

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thank you very much for the opportunity

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to be here and look forward to the panel

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discussion and other questions later on

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so i served as center deputy director at

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nasa glenn research center and in there

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i shared responsibility with the center

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director

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for planning

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organizing and managing all the programs

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and projects that are

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agency level assigned to the center so

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again thank you very much for the

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opportunity to be here thank you dr

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perez davis

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second we have sandra alba kaufman who

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is the deputy director for the earth

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science division at the

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science mission to

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dictate here

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directory pardon me my action came out

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it's okay at nasa headquarters

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please tell us a little bit about your

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work here at nasa yeah thank you so much

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hola constant uh it is uh uh nice to be

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here celebrating um hispanic history

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month with all of you

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so i am the deputy uh director for the

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euro science division at nasa

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headquarters and we oversee

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all of the earth science aspects

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of the entire agency uh for their

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science

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so when i first

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took this position i was telling a

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neighbor that i was going to be working

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on earth science and the first thing

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they asked me was you're not going to

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launch satellites anymore

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and of course we have satellites you all

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know you know and earth science is

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an amazing program and we

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are constantly looking at earth looking

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at our home planet and what we do and i

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share responsibility with the director

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and

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overseeing

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the the entire portfolio of our science

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missions and

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not only the flight and the technology

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and the research but also all the the

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societal benefits that entail uh in

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finding out you know how this little

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planet that we live in functions and

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works so thank you thank you very much

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uh next we have dr yarisca collado vega

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man this accent of mine

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was a physical science at the nasa

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goddard space

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flight center

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uh good morning hola

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um but nobody at goddard knows me like

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that they know me as jadi because it's a

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lot easier actually call me yari which

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i'm okay with that um i've been a ghada

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for 14 years i'm originally from

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puerto rico marilla island which is

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suffering a little bit now

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and i do i'm actually the lead for the

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space welder team there i work with the

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community coordinating modeling center

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we do validation of models for space

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weather and we do space weather

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forecasting to protect nasa robotic

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missions and i love i love my job

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wonderful thank you very much

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next we have marile colon robles who's

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the education outreach coordinator for

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the nasa langley research center marilla

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please tell us a little bit about you

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thank you so much

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my name is marile and i'm also from

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puerto rico so thank you so much for

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your prayers and help for our island it

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really means a lot

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i'm an education specialist so i get to

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engage and inspire teachers and students

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all around the country and particularly

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with the globe program the global

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learning and observations to benefit the

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environment what it is is an

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international program where anybody can

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enter their data if they follow the

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instructions that we have there and then

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you get to

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include your observations so that

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researchers can do

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their observations of the planet earth

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at nasa langley which we're celebrating

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100 years right now

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we send you

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um

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what a satellite observe if you send us

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your cloud observations so you get an

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email from nasa

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with your observations next to a

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satellite that was right on top of you

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at the same time as you did your

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observations so it's really um powerful

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and i get to pay it forward which is

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always my passion

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wonderful thank you so much marile

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next we have dr carolina aguirre who is

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the director for stem education at the

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university of new mexico

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hello and thank you for having me here

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i'm very excited

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um

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like you

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nasa is a big thing

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i'm excited um i am from uh albuquerque

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new mexico i work at the university of

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new mexico valencia branch so it's a

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community college

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and at that college i direct a stem

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grant which is

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reaching rural stem students

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so for a living i've been writing grants

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and providing

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funding and direction for students

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to align them into the stem fields

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wonderful thank you very much thank you

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and that last but not least is it's a

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very impressive individual who's a close

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friend of mine and a mentor of mine jose

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antonio tierino the president ceo of the

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hispanic heritage foundation

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we all like to call him tony so tony

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please tell us a little bit about the

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great work that you do we focus on

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education workforce development public

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awareness

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and all through kind of the across all

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of those things is connectivity

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leadership and innovation

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but we also want to work backwards from

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what america's priorities are which end

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up being for the most part in the stem

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fields

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wonderful

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so

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as you can see we have an amazing

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diversity of folks not only in

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nationalities but also in their thoughts

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and so i promised you a personal story

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back when i first arrived into this

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country

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i grew up in el salvador like maria

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and it was funny because i used to watch

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i remember watching cartoons that were

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from japan there were these early magna

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cartoons about being in outer space and

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exploring

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and when we migrated to the u.s due to

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the civil war i remember that one of the

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first things that greeted me and that

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made me feel comfortable were these

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cartoons right so these but they were

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now in english and believe it or not it

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was these cartoons that actually helped

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me learned english because i remembered

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what they were saying in spanish and

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slowly things started to translate for

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me right so the international aspect to

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this a cartoon in japan being shown in

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latin america greeting me in the united

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states

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um talks about the power

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of communication um and so later on when

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i was about to go to high school i wrote

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a letter to nasa i said hey i want to be

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an astronaut and i'm going to go to high

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school can you please tell me what

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courses i should take so i can prepare

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and at the time i got this form back

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just a general form and had checked off

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that said

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nasa

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normally picks its astronauts from the

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scientific and military communities so

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we have no specific curriculum for you

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to follow and i was like what's a

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curriculum

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um

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i tell that story because because there

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wasn't a clear path for me to take that

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dream got deferred

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my passion and interest in science and

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astronomy always remained

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but i wasn't able to materialize it

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and so i wanted to really

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use that example as saying that for

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young kids it's really important for

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them to have that cheese spa right and

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for that to be nurtured uh and and for

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really a path forward to be developed uh

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so that they can follow it um and

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particularly i think for latinos

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this is relevant

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latinos

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who immigrate to the united states and

570
00:21:36,390 --> 00:21:34,320
for that case all immigrants who

571
00:21:38,630 --> 00:21:36,400
immigrate to the united states are used

572
00:21:39,909 --> 00:21:38,640
to long journeys are used to going into

573
00:21:41,669 --> 00:21:39,919
the unknown

574
00:21:44,390 --> 00:21:41,679
and to some extent they're they're

575
00:21:46,230 --> 00:21:44,400
almost children of two worlds right uh

576
00:21:48,149 --> 00:21:46,240
in terms of the old country and in the

577
00:21:50,630 --> 00:21:48,159
new country and adapting to that but

578
00:21:51,669 --> 00:21:50,640
also the generations right because

579
00:21:57,669 --> 00:21:51,679
the

580
00:21:58,630 --> 00:21:57,679
here and so this generation of latinos

581
00:22:00,789 --> 00:21:58,640
what we tend to call the first

582
00:22:02,710 --> 00:22:00,799
generation of latinos is here to stay in

583
00:22:05,350 --> 00:22:02,720
the u.s and we want to contribute and we

584
00:22:08,070 --> 00:22:05,360
love the us this is such this is our

585
00:22:10,870 --> 00:22:08,080
homeland right but our parents right we

586
00:22:13,510 --> 00:22:10,880
our language our customs still harken

587
00:22:16,789 --> 00:22:13,520
back to this old world right so as

588
00:22:18,470 --> 00:22:16,799
latinos it's almost like we have

589
00:22:21,190 --> 00:22:18,480
in our cultural

590
00:22:23,510 --> 00:22:21,200
dna you know what it would take to

591
00:22:25,750 --> 00:22:23,520
partake in space exploration

592
00:22:27,430 --> 00:22:25,760
uh and the stem fields become very

593
00:22:28,470 --> 00:22:27,440
important because they begin to draw

594
00:22:31,350 --> 00:22:28,480
that out

595
00:22:33,750 --> 00:22:31,360
but cooperation is is really what leads

596
00:22:34,710 --> 00:22:33,760
to this right and it's it's cooperation

597
00:22:36,710 --> 00:22:34,720
and it's

598
00:22:38,470 --> 00:22:36,720
how can we all be working together to

599
00:22:40,789 --> 00:22:38,480
fit in these different pieces when we

600
00:22:42,789 --> 00:22:40,799
think about the greatest accomplishments

601
00:22:45,590 --> 00:22:42,799
in the united states

602
00:22:47,750 --> 00:22:45,600
among them is the space race right and

603
00:22:49,510 --> 00:22:47,760
that's when we had a sense of destiny

604
00:22:51,669 --> 00:22:49,520
that's when we had a sense of we're

605
00:22:54,630 --> 00:22:51,679
going to accomplish this we set a clear

606
00:22:57,430 --> 00:22:54,640
path a clear goal for ourselves and we

607
00:22:59,909 --> 00:22:57,440
put all our resources into it right it

608
00:23:01,830 --> 00:22:59,919
was the cooperation of many different

609
00:23:03,510 --> 00:23:01,840
fields there was the cooperation of many

610
00:23:07,029 --> 00:23:03,520
different peoples that brought that

611
00:23:09,990 --> 00:23:07,039
about and so we now have the opportunity

612
00:23:12,870 --> 00:23:10,000
to go to mars it's within our grasp and

613
00:23:14,230 --> 00:23:12,880
really being able to take the space race

614
00:23:16,070 --> 00:23:14,240
to the next level

615
00:23:18,310 --> 00:23:16,080
um it's

616
00:23:20,470 --> 00:23:18,320
it's to some extent harkens back to what

617
00:23:22,470 --> 00:23:20,480
humanity's challenge is right from

618
00:23:24,789 --> 00:23:22,480
leaving the cradle of civilization and

619
00:23:27,590 --> 00:23:24,799
expanding throughout the globe and now

620
00:23:29,909 --> 00:23:27,600
looking at space and it's ironic because

621
00:23:31,750 --> 00:23:29,919
space is emptiness right

622
00:23:34,630 --> 00:23:31,760
but within that emptiness is really

623
00:23:35,990 --> 00:23:34,640
where we can find our destiny as a human

624
00:23:37,510 --> 00:23:36,000
race

625
00:23:39,270 --> 00:23:37,520
but that's going to take all of us

626
00:23:42,310 --> 00:23:39,280
working together and i think the space

627
00:23:44,230 --> 00:23:42,320
programs in science demands that right

628
00:23:46,230 --> 00:23:44,240
as you look at where we've been heading

629
00:23:48,470 --> 00:23:46,240
now we have an international space

630
00:23:50,310 --> 00:23:48,480
station right we knew that one country

631
00:23:52,950 --> 00:23:50,320
couldn't do it alone so how can

632
00:23:55,590 --> 00:23:52,960
countries work together right to get

633
00:23:57,750 --> 00:23:55,600
this accomplishment done and so

634
00:24:00,230 --> 00:23:57,760
in that spirit we have a lot of work to

635
00:24:01,990 --> 00:24:00,240
do and so as latinos now as we are part

636
00:24:03,669 --> 00:24:02,000
of this larger collective

637
00:24:05,830 --> 00:24:03,679
how do we

638
00:24:08,549 --> 00:24:05,840
contribute to this larger what's because

639
00:24:09,590 --> 00:24:08,559
to me space is the ultimate relay race

640
00:24:11,110 --> 00:24:09,600
right it's going to be

641
00:24:13,029 --> 00:24:11,120
multi-generational

642
00:24:14,630 --> 00:24:13,039
and it's going to take all of us really

643
00:24:16,950 --> 00:24:14,640
working together putting our resources

644
00:24:19,110 --> 00:24:16,960
together and so our panel

645
00:24:22,390 --> 00:24:19,120
today can discuss about how we can

646
00:24:24,149 --> 00:24:22,400
really provide such a path forward for

647
00:24:27,029 --> 00:24:24,159
young students high school students and

648
00:24:29,110 --> 00:24:27,039
those going into college degrees

649
00:24:31,510 --> 00:24:29,120
and how can we be really accomplishing

650
00:24:33,669 --> 00:24:31,520
this so with that being said i i wanted

651
00:24:36,149 --> 00:24:33,679
to really have this conversation

652
00:24:37,510 --> 00:24:36,159
uh between all of us and start exploring

653
00:24:40,390 --> 00:24:37,520
those paths because there's a lot of

654
00:24:43,110 --> 00:24:40,400
work to do so maybe i can just kind of

655
00:24:45,110 --> 00:24:43,120
throw this out at least to the group but

656
00:24:47,830 --> 00:24:45,120
let's start with why is stem education

657
00:24:50,310 --> 00:24:47,840
important and why particularly should we

658
00:24:51,669 --> 00:24:50,320
be engaging the latino community some

659
00:24:54,870 --> 00:24:51,679
would say that we need to engage

660
00:24:57,669 --> 00:24:54,880
everybody yes but if we can focus on why

661
00:25:00,630 --> 00:24:57,679
it is important for latinos

662
00:25:02,070 --> 00:25:00,640
to really be able to stem up uh and

663
00:25:03,990 --> 00:25:02,080
fulfill their

664
00:25:06,470 --> 00:25:04,000
and and i open it to whoever would like

665
00:25:09,190 --> 00:25:06,480
to take that one first

666
00:25:12,230 --> 00:25:09,200
so i i start and you know feel free to

667
00:25:14,870 --> 00:25:12,240
jump here and add to it um so you talk

668
00:25:17,029 --> 00:25:14,880
about you know space exploration and you

669
00:25:19,190 --> 00:25:17,039
know that's one of the drivers there's

670
00:25:22,470 --> 00:25:19,200
also aeronautics so

671
00:25:24,470 --> 00:25:22,480
um is technical leadership how we can

672
00:25:27,029 --> 00:25:24,480
sustain the technical leadership in this

673
00:25:29,909 --> 00:25:27,039
country so when you look at how many

674
00:25:32,470 --> 00:25:29,919
hispanics the hispanic population in you

675
00:25:35,190 --> 00:25:32,480
know united states you have 17 18

676
00:25:37,990 --> 00:25:35,200
percent that are hispanic so that's on

677
00:25:40,390 --> 00:25:38,000
top potential we have to find a way to

678
00:25:42,950 --> 00:25:40,400
top that potential because only 10

679
00:25:45,430 --> 00:25:42,960
percent get to stem so that's a very

680
00:25:47,029 --> 00:25:45,440
small amount so first of all we have to

681
00:25:49,750 --> 00:25:47,039
retain that 10

682
00:25:50,950 --> 00:25:49,760
because 10 is what get out of the you

683
00:25:53,669 --> 00:25:50,960
know high

684
00:25:55,430 --> 00:25:53,679
uh education institutions some of them

685
00:25:57,990 --> 00:25:55,440
stay in the stem field some of them do

686
00:26:00,630 --> 00:25:58,000
not stay in the stem field so we do have

687
00:26:02,470 --> 00:26:00,640
a responsibility to tap that potential

688
00:26:04,230 --> 00:26:02,480
you know storytelling i think you know

689
00:26:06,630 --> 00:26:04,240
we heard some stories this morning i

690
00:26:09,110 --> 00:26:06,640
came from you know puerto rico so i have

691
00:26:12,390 --> 00:26:09,120
my story too but we have to use the

692
00:26:14,789 --> 00:26:12,400
power of the storytelling to really

693
00:26:17,190 --> 00:26:14,799
motivate and inspire that generation

694
00:26:19,269 --> 00:26:17,200
that is possible that can be done take

695
00:26:21,510 --> 00:26:19,279
words but again you mentioned that

696
00:26:23,350 --> 00:26:21,520
they're used to challenges it's not like

697
00:26:25,669 --> 00:26:23,360
they don't know the challenge but we

698
00:26:28,870 --> 00:26:25,679
have to provide the opportunities to

699
00:26:29,669 --> 00:26:28,880
really untap that potential

700
00:26:31,990 --> 00:26:29,679
um

701
00:26:34,149 --> 00:26:32,000
i also want to say like like she said

702
00:26:35,990 --> 00:26:34,159
like the storytelling is very important

703
00:26:37,029 --> 00:26:36,000
as a scientist when i do a presentation

704
00:26:39,430 --> 00:26:37,039
i want to

705
00:26:41,590 --> 00:26:39,440
say what is my sciences and explain it

706
00:26:42,950 --> 00:26:41,600
but i also want to say who i am so

707
00:26:44,310 --> 00:26:42,960
people can connect with me in a

708
00:26:47,110 --> 00:26:44,320
different level

709
00:26:48,710 --> 00:26:47,120
and that also started when i i always

710
00:26:49,750 --> 00:26:48,720
did education outreach because i really

711
00:26:51,510 --> 00:26:49,760
love it

712
00:26:53,190 --> 00:26:51,520
and one of the things that i always say

713
00:26:55,350 --> 00:26:53,200
is i where i'm from

714
00:26:57,350 --> 00:26:55,360
and i usually say something in spanish

715
00:26:59,669 --> 00:26:57,360
you know to get the conversation going

716
00:27:02,630 --> 00:26:59,679
and one time in one of the presentations

717
00:27:05,430 --> 00:27:02,640
that this small small kid came to met a

718
00:27:07,350 --> 00:27:05,440
female and she said wow i didn't know i

719
00:27:09,830 --> 00:27:07,360
could become a scientist

720
00:27:12,710 --> 00:27:09,840
and that for me actually hit my heart

721
00:27:15,510 --> 00:27:12,720
because she was telling me that i made

722
00:27:17,750 --> 00:27:15,520
an imprint on her you know i made that

723
00:27:19,750 --> 00:27:17,760
change on her mind and it has to do also

724
00:27:22,149 --> 00:27:19,760
by the culture that they come up you

725
00:27:24,230 --> 00:27:22,159
know i had a very supportive family

726
00:27:26,789 --> 00:27:24,240
which i'm very blessed for but i did

727
00:27:28,310 --> 00:27:26,799
have people around me saying you're not

728
00:27:29,669 --> 00:27:28,320
going to get to nasa you're not going to

729
00:27:30,789 --> 00:27:29,679
work for nasa you're not going to be a

730
00:27:32,310 --> 00:27:30,799
scientist

731
00:27:34,389 --> 00:27:32,320
look at you because they have these

732
00:27:36,710 --> 00:27:34,399
stereotypes in their minds and they let

733
00:27:38,149 --> 00:27:36,720
that clear the path when you know you

734
00:27:39,909 --> 00:27:38,159
don't have to change who you are to

735
00:27:42,389 --> 00:27:39,919
actually do what you love

736
00:27:44,389 --> 00:27:42,399
so that's part of the whole idea get the

737
00:27:46,870 --> 00:27:44,399
story going so the kids actually

738
00:27:49,590 --> 00:27:46,880
understand where you come from how you

739
00:27:50,630 --> 00:27:49,600
became what you are and they can also do

740
00:27:53,590 --> 00:27:50,640
it

741
00:27:56,149 --> 00:27:53,600
i have to say that um

742
00:27:59,269 --> 00:27:56,159
kids is going to be what they cannot see

743
00:28:02,070 --> 00:27:59,279
too and so we have to

744
00:28:05,990 --> 00:28:02,080
be role models um and you know female

745
00:28:08,149 --> 00:28:06,000
hispanic of course you know i like to uh

746
00:28:11,110 --> 00:28:08,159
show the girls that that it can be done

747
00:28:13,909 --> 00:28:11,120
and i always um you know it hispanics

748
00:28:16,549 --> 00:28:13,919
are the the fastest growing uh community

749
00:28:17,590 --> 00:28:16,559
in the united states and like marla was

750
00:28:21,350 --> 00:28:17,600
saying you know it's an untapped

751
00:28:24,070 --> 00:28:21,360
potential it's a lot of girls who

752
00:28:26,549 --> 00:28:24,080
say well i'm female i'm hispanic and

753
00:28:28,789 --> 00:28:26,559
maybe i cannot aspire to be you know a

754
00:28:31,750 --> 00:28:28,799
scientist or an engineer and i have made

755
00:28:34,549 --> 00:28:31,760
my my life mission to really encourage

756
00:28:37,350 --> 00:28:34,559
and empower all of these uh uh girls in

757
00:28:39,669 --> 00:28:37,360
particular in hispanic communities

758
00:28:42,070 --> 00:28:39,679
that they really can be whoever they

759
00:28:44,230 --> 00:28:42,080
want to be if they put forth the effort

760
00:28:47,269 --> 00:28:44,240
it's not easy i uh you know i come from

761
00:28:49,350 --> 00:28:47,279
costa rica i also immigrated to uh

762
00:28:51,590 --> 00:28:49,360
the united states and uh it wasn't easy

763
00:28:54,070 --> 00:28:51,600
it took me seven years a path to college

764
00:28:56,389 --> 00:28:54,080
it was very hard but you know i did it

765
00:28:58,870 --> 00:28:56,399
and um and and and by sharing the

766
00:29:01,269 --> 00:28:58,880
storytelling sharing the stories and and

767
00:29:03,830 --> 00:29:01,279
how i was able to to accomplish the

768
00:29:06,310 --> 00:29:03,840
dreams that i had uh you know it is a it

769
00:29:08,149 --> 00:29:06,320
is a way for for these girls and i have

770
00:29:11,029 --> 00:29:08,159
had so many girls come and said you know

771
00:29:12,870 --> 00:29:11,039
i didn't know that i could and uh in in

772
00:29:14,950 --> 00:29:12,880
and i'm always trying and i'm gonna

773
00:29:16,950 --> 00:29:14,960
stick the path and i'm gonna continue uh

774
00:29:19,029 --> 00:29:16,960
putting forth the effort uh you know so

775
00:29:21,350 --> 00:29:19,039
it's always very uh rewarding when when

776
00:29:22,950 --> 00:29:21,360
you hear uh those kind of messages back

777
00:29:25,269 --> 00:29:22,960
that that whatever little seats you're

778
00:29:27,029 --> 00:29:25,279
planting out there are taking root and

779
00:29:29,190 --> 00:29:27,039
and they are going to grow and we have

780
00:29:31,190 --> 00:29:29,200
to start with the elementary school i

781
00:29:33,990 --> 00:29:31,200
think that's where you plant those seeds

782
00:29:36,310 --> 00:29:34,000
uh i got it um

783
00:29:37,750 --> 00:29:36,320
inspired to uh by you know to work on

784
00:29:39,029 --> 00:29:37,760
the space program when i was seven years

785
00:29:40,870 --> 00:29:39,039
old and i mean seven years old five

786
00:29:42,630 --> 00:29:40,880
years old i don't know we we know what

787
00:29:44,950 --> 00:29:42,640
we want at that age

788
00:29:46,950 --> 00:29:44,960
so we have to plant those seeds then and

789
00:29:49,430 --> 00:29:46,960
then slowly nurture them so they can

790
00:29:51,590 --> 00:29:49,440
grow and develop into our beautiful

791
00:29:53,430 --> 00:29:51,600
blooming flowers and everything

792
00:29:55,430 --> 00:29:53,440
yeah you know why do we answer that

793
00:29:56,310 --> 00:29:55,440
question please yes because i look at it

794
00:29:57,269 --> 00:29:56,320
as a

795
00:29:59,110 --> 00:29:57,279
two

796
00:30:01,430 --> 00:29:59,120
um big areas

797
00:30:05,110 --> 00:30:01,440
one is that as a community we've been

798
00:30:07,269 --> 00:30:05,120
recently devalued and defined by others

799
00:30:09,350 --> 00:30:07,279
in order to find ourselves and present

800
00:30:11,750 --> 00:30:09,360
that value proposition to america that

801
00:30:13,430 --> 00:30:11,760
we as latinos or as immigrants or as

802
00:30:14,710 --> 00:30:13,440
women offer

803
00:30:16,950 --> 00:30:14,720
we have to work backwards from what

804
00:30:19,029 --> 00:30:16,960
america needs the most and right now

805
00:30:20,310 --> 00:30:19,039
there's half a million jobs unfilled in

806
00:30:23,029 --> 00:30:20,320
the tech space

807
00:30:24,470 --> 00:30:23,039
i'll just stick to one part of the stem

808
00:30:26,310 --> 00:30:24,480
areas

809
00:30:28,549 --> 00:30:26,320
there's 1.1 million that'll have to be

810
00:30:29,510 --> 00:30:28,559
filled over the next three years

811
00:30:31,350 --> 00:30:29,520
so

812
00:30:33,269 --> 00:30:31,360
as much as latinos traditionally have

813
00:30:35,830 --> 00:30:33,279
always answered the call in terms of

814
00:30:37,830 --> 00:30:35,840
jobs that need to be done in america

815
00:30:39,990 --> 00:30:37,840
we'll fight your wars we'll build your

816
00:30:41,590 --> 00:30:40,000
bridges we'll build your homes we'll

817
00:30:44,310 --> 00:30:41,600
take care of your children we'll pick

818
00:30:47,669 --> 00:30:44,320
your food we'll serve your food whatever

819
00:30:49,990 --> 00:30:47,679
it takes we nobly do it now the great

820
00:30:50,950 --> 00:30:50,000
need for the workforce is in the stem

821
00:30:53,110 --> 00:30:50,960
fields

822
00:30:55,990 --> 00:30:53,120
and once again we'll be able to fill

823
00:30:57,909 --> 00:30:56,000
those areas and there's nothing america

824
00:31:00,549 --> 00:30:57,919
can do we need they need us

825
00:31:03,269 --> 00:31:00,559
and we need america so it is

826
00:31:04,789 --> 00:31:03,279
a responsibility that we all have as my

827
00:31:06,470 --> 00:31:04,799
mother told me you have a greater

828
00:31:07,750 --> 00:31:06,480
responsibility than somebody that's born

829
00:31:09,669 --> 00:31:07,760
here because

830
00:31:12,389 --> 00:31:09,679
we had to fight to get here

831
00:31:13,830 --> 00:31:12,399
um you owe america a lot more than

832
00:31:15,590 --> 00:31:13,840
america owes you

833
00:31:16,950 --> 00:31:15,600
and i think that we carry that with us

834
00:31:18,870 --> 00:31:16,960
in our hearts

835
00:31:21,750 --> 00:31:18,880
and it drives us in terms of what those

836
00:31:23,190 --> 00:31:21,760
contributions are but as of right now

837
00:31:25,190 --> 00:31:23,200
ten thousand baby boomers reach

838
00:31:27,750 --> 00:31:25,200
retirement age every single day over the

839
00:31:29,430 --> 00:31:27,760
next decade ten thousand

840
00:31:31,430 --> 00:31:29,440
who's going to fill that gap youngest

841
00:31:32,710 --> 00:31:31,440
segment of the population

842
00:31:34,070 --> 00:31:32,720
fastest growing segment of the

843
00:31:36,230 --> 00:31:34,080
population

844
00:31:39,190 --> 00:31:36,240
seven out of ten new jobs in america

845
00:31:41,110 --> 00:31:39,200
will be filled by latinos new jobs so

846
00:31:42,710 --> 00:31:41,120
it's two out of three

847
00:31:44,070 --> 00:31:42,720
we want to make sure that those jobs are

848
00:31:46,389 --> 00:31:44,080
in the stem fields again to work

849
00:31:48,710 --> 00:31:46,399
backwards from what america needs

850
00:31:50,630 --> 00:31:48,720
and we're always up to the task and we

851
00:31:53,350 --> 00:31:50,640
have to make sure that our kids are

852
00:31:54,950 --> 00:31:53,360
getting that chispa of inspiration

853
00:31:56,149 --> 00:31:54,960
from an early early stage we were just

854
00:31:58,149 --> 00:31:56,159
talking about

855
00:31:59,590 --> 00:31:58,159
how my kids we put in front of them

856
00:32:01,430 --> 00:31:59,600
whether it was i think it was like angry

857
00:32:02,950 --> 00:32:01,440
birds or something that actually was

858
00:32:05,269 --> 00:32:02,960
coding even though they thought they

859
00:32:07,269 --> 00:32:05,279
were playing video games it wasn't it

860
00:32:08,710 --> 00:32:07,279
was a form of coding and at our

861
00:32:10,470 --> 00:32:08,720
organization we always try to look at

862
00:32:13,269 --> 00:32:10,480
things where latinos over index in terms

863
00:32:15,430 --> 00:32:13,279
of playing video games that we do

864
00:32:16,870 --> 00:32:15,440
programs where we engage kids by saying

865
00:32:18,789 --> 00:32:16,880
you like to play video games how about

866
00:32:20,870 --> 00:32:18,799
developing one

867
00:32:23,430 --> 00:32:20,880
and that leads into cyber

868
00:32:25,029 --> 00:32:23,440
um opportunities and in coding and all

869
00:32:27,110 --> 00:32:25,039
these other things so

870
00:32:29,029 --> 00:32:27,120
i think those are critical pieces to me

871
00:32:31,269 --> 00:32:29,039
is that we need to define ourselves and

872
00:32:32,710 --> 00:32:31,279
to find that value that we offer america

873
00:32:34,230 --> 00:32:32,720
and the way to do that is to work

874
00:32:35,830 --> 00:32:34,240
backwards from what america needs most

875
00:32:37,509 --> 00:32:35,840
which are the stem jobs

876
00:32:39,909 --> 00:32:37,519
and you bring an interesting point on it

877
00:32:42,789 --> 00:32:39,919
because latinos are the fastest growing

878
00:32:45,029 --> 00:32:42,799
in terms of you know early childhood

879
00:32:46,549 --> 00:32:45,039
education in pre-high school you know

880
00:32:48,470 --> 00:32:46,559
this 25

881
00:32:51,269 --> 00:32:48,480
of the population is made up of latinos

882
00:32:53,909 --> 00:32:51,279
and latino graduation rates are actually

883
00:32:56,149 --> 00:32:53,919
uh increasing which is great to see

884
00:32:59,590 --> 00:32:56,159
but this there's a gap in the stem

885
00:33:02,230 --> 00:32:59,600
fields uh and so i wanted to engage our

886
00:33:04,230 --> 00:33:02,240
remaining panelists why do you think um

887
00:33:06,470 --> 00:33:04,240
this gap exists and of course it's open

888
00:33:09,350 --> 00:33:06,480
to all but i wanted to give

889
00:33:11,269 --> 00:33:09,360
dr caroline and marilee a chance to talk

890
00:33:12,870 --> 00:33:11,279
well i actually was going to add to your

891
00:33:15,990 --> 00:33:12,880
point

892
00:33:17,590 --> 00:33:16,000
and also to answer this question is the

893
00:33:20,310 --> 00:33:17,600
other thing that we see here in the

894
00:33:22,070 --> 00:33:20,320
united states is that we are a knowledge

895
00:33:24,870 --> 00:33:22,080
economy

896
00:33:26,070 --> 00:33:24,880
we are counting on that knowledge

897
00:33:29,110 --> 00:33:26,080
economy

898
00:33:31,830 --> 00:33:29,120
to make us the innovators to continue to

899
00:33:34,230 --> 00:33:31,840
push us forward uh to come up with the

900
00:33:37,110 --> 00:33:34,240
next best thing and it always

901
00:33:40,149 --> 00:33:37,120
well it is seemingly always

902
00:33:43,350 --> 00:33:40,159
in an area of stem that all the great

903
00:33:46,950 --> 00:33:43,360
innovations are coming from

904
00:33:49,590 --> 00:33:46,960
if most of our hispanic population

905
00:33:51,830 --> 00:33:49,600
is not able to participate in that

906
00:33:54,630 --> 00:33:51,840
knowledge economy because they are

907
00:33:56,950 --> 00:33:54,640
finishing high school now

908
00:33:59,590 --> 00:33:56,960
at a better rate which is good

909
00:34:00,630 --> 00:33:59,600
however they're still not participating

910
00:34:01,430 --> 00:34:00,640
in

911
00:34:10,389 --> 00:34:01,440
the

912
00:34:13,909 --> 00:34:10,399
we're innovators we're thinkers we

913
00:34:17,430 --> 00:34:13,919
create solutions we're problem solvers

914
00:34:20,629 --> 00:34:17,440
and if we aren't educating or if that

915
00:34:23,829 --> 00:34:20,639
gap continues

916
00:34:24,869 --> 00:34:23,839
latinos will continue to do well

917
00:34:27,430 --> 00:34:24,879
but they

918
00:34:30,389 --> 00:34:27,440
also need their place

919
00:34:34,310 --> 00:34:30,399
in the knowledge economy they need to

920
00:34:36,629 --> 00:34:34,320
have the opportunity to innovate

921
00:34:40,470 --> 00:34:36,639
and it and it was brought up the need

922
00:34:43,750 --> 00:34:40,480
for um a term that an educator

923
00:34:45,829 --> 00:34:43,760
used in the 90s of windows and mirrors

924
00:34:48,470 --> 00:34:45,839
mirrors so that they can see someone

925
00:34:50,629 --> 00:34:48,480
that looks like them speaks like them

926
00:34:53,030 --> 00:34:50,639
went through similar situations so that

927
00:34:55,270 --> 00:34:53,040
they can relate so when we go and say

928
00:34:57,990 --> 00:34:55,280
you can have a stem opportunity you can

929
00:34:59,349 --> 00:34:58,000
work at nasa they see it as an actual

930
00:35:02,230 --> 00:34:59,359
possibility

931
00:35:04,150 --> 00:35:02,240
right the other one are windows we need

932
00:35:06,790 --> 00:35:04,160
to show them the opportunities that

933
00:35:08,550 --> 00:35:06,800
exist and through that we really need to

934
00:35:10,390 --> 00:35:08,560
work with the teachers

935
00:35:12,790 --> 00:35:10,400
of these students we need to work the

936
00:35:14,230 --> 00:35:12,800
communities and the families so really

937
00:35:17,030 --> 00:35:14,240
involving

938
00:35:19,510 --> 00:35:17,040
everybody together and the beauty of

939
00:35:21,990 --> 00:35:19,520
stem is that stem is in everything right

940
00:35:25,109 --> 00:35:22,000
we have basically super computers in our

941
00:35:28,069 --> 00:35:25,119
hands right our phones right that is

942
00:35:29,750 --> 00:35:28,079
stem they're already doing stem so it's

943
00:35:32,470 --> 00:35:29,760
really supporting those teachers the

944
00:35:33,750 --> 00:35:32,480
community the parents to say this is

945
00:35:35,829 --> 00:35:33,760
already stem

946
00:35:38,390 --> 00:35:35,839
and you're doing it and you can go

947
00:35:41,589 --> 00:35:38,400
forward with it i think that's very

948
00:35:44,550 --> 00:35:41,599
important and necessary that's wonderful

949
00:35:46,390 --> 00:35:44,560
yay if i may call you that um

950
00:35:47,990 --> 00:35:46,400
how important how important is stem

951
00:35:48,950 --> 00:35:48,000
curriculum

952
00:35:57,829 --> 00:35:48,960
in

953
00:35:59,510 --> 00:35:57,839
students

954
00:36:02,310 --> 00:35:59,520
for the stem fields

955
00:36:03,829 --> 00:36:02,320
so like as sandra said um when you get

956
00:36:05,750 --> 00:36:03,839
the kids when they're really early

957
00:36:07,190 --> 00:36:05,760
that's when you plant the seed

958
00:36:08,710 --> 00:36:07,200
and it's very interesting because when

959
00:36:11,270 --> 00:36:08,720
you give presentations to different

960
00:36:13,430 --> 00:36:11,280
levels of kids you see how they change

961
00:36:15,829 --> 00:36:13,440
their minds at the beginning they're

962
00:36:17,990 --> 00:36:15,839
always like excited wow i love that

963
00:36:19,430 --> 00:36:18,000
science and they get really excited

964
00:36:21,349 --> 00:36:19,440
about everything that you talk about

965
00:36:24,390 --> 00:36:21,359
then in middle school they start asking

966
00:36:25,990 --> 00:36:24,400
more about how that happens you know

967
00:36:28,550 --> 00:36:26,000
everything like that and then in high

968
00:36:29,910 --> 00:36:28,560
school then they derail a little bit

969
00:36:31,670 --> 00:36:29,920
because now they're interested in how

970
00:36:33,510 --> 00:36:31,680
much money you make that's reality

971
00:36:36,310 --> 00:36:33,520
that's the questions that i get how much

972
00:36:38,069 --> 00:36:36,320
money do you make and i said well i mean

973
00:36:39,990 --> 00:36:38,079
i wanted to be tourism when i was in

974
00:36:42,550 --> 00:36:40,000
high school because i i always wanted to

975
00:36:45,430 --> 00:36:42,560
be a scientist when i was a kid but then

976
00:36:49,030 --> 00:36:45,440
i got derailed myself and in high school

977
00:36:51,670 --> 00:36:49,040
i thought about doing tourism but then

978
00:36:54,470 --> 00:36:51,680
once one teacher said no you're good at

979
00:36:56,150 --> 00:36:54,480
science go to science so i started my

980
00:36:58,870 --> 00:36:56,160
undergrad in physics so i decided to be

981
00:36:59,910 --> 00:36:58,880
poor i'm just kidding

982
00:37:01,510 --> 00:36:59,920
just kidding

983
00:37:03,750 --> 00:37:01,520
uh but you know everybody that does

984
00:37:06,310 --> 00:37:03,760
science knows that it's not a field to

985
00:37:07,030 --> 00:37:06,320
be rich it's you do it because you love

986
00:37:09,750 --> 00:37:07,040
it

987
00:37:11,030 --> 00:37:09,760
right and when i gave that presentation

988
00:37:13,430 --> 00:37:11,040
to that high school where they started

989
00:37:15,829 --> 00:37:13,440
saying you know how much you make i said

990
00:37:18,310 --> 00:37:15,839
oh my god yeah we need to plant the seed

991
00:37:20,790 --> 00:37:18,320
on the smallest ones but we also need to

992
00:37:23,270 --> 00:37:20,800
keep them in the path

993
00:37:25,670 --> 00:37:23,280
while they go through the whole school

994
00:37:27,750 --> 00:37:25,680
time right because at the high school

995
00:37:30,150 --> 00:37:27,760
level i wish i had a scientist go to my

996
00:37:31,910 --> 00:37:30,160
school and say what they did and how

997
00:37:33,510 --> 00:37:31,920
they worked on and say that they work

998
00:37:35,030 --> 00:37:33,520
for nasa because that would have

999
00:37:37,750 --> 00:37:35,040
actually given me a little bit more of

1000
00:37:39,589 --> 00:37:37,760
push of keep doing it what i did

1001
00:37:40,710 --> 00:37:39,599
right so i think it's really important

1002
00:37:44,550 --> 00:37:40,720
to actually

1003
00:37:46,870 --> 00:37:44,560
for us to be mentors all the time and

1004
00:37:49,109 --> 00:37:46,880
like he said she said it's not only to

1005
00:37:51,349 --> 00:37:49,119
the kids it's also to the teachers we

1006
00:37:53,750 --> 00:37:51,359
also have to communicate to the teachers

1007
00:37:56,150 --> 00:37:53,760
so the teachers can give that kind of

1008
00:37:58,390 --> 00:37:56,160
also impact and communication to this

1009
00:38:00,710 --> 00:37:58,400
kid the kids when they work with them

1010
00:38:03,510 --> 00:38:00,720
every single day school is the second

1011
00:38:05,750 --> 00:38:03,520
home yes so that's where they learn the

1012
00:38:07,270 --> 00:38:05,760
most right yes next time they ask you

1013
00:38:09,430 --> 00:38:07,280
that though you can make a million

1014
00:38:11,510 --> 00:38:09,440
dollars more in a stem field than in a

1015
00:38:13,510 --> 00:38:11,520
non-stem field so there there is an

1016
00:38:15,190 --> 00:38:13,520
answer question of how much you can make

1017
00:38:17,030 --> 00:38:15,200
i was going to say that

1018
00:38:19,109 --> 00:38:17,040
i usually get this from kids well i'm

1019
00:38:20,390 --> 00:38:19,119
not that good at math and i always look

1020
00:38:21,829 --> 00:38:20,400
at them and it's like it's not whether

1021
00:38:23,349 --> 00:38:21,839
you're good or bad at math it's how much

1022
00:38:25,109 --> 00:38:23,359
effort you want to put into learning the

1023
00:38:26,950 --> 00:38:25,119
subject i mean it might take a little

1024
00:38:29,109 --> 00:38:26,960
more a little less but you know if you

1025
00:38:30,870 --> 00:38:29,119
want something yeah you can do it and

1026
00:38:32,790 --> 00:38:30,880
and the other thing is that they are

1027
00:38:34,950 --> 00:38:32,800
afraid you know we're afraid of failure

1028
00:38:36,710 --> 00:38:34,960
and the first time you fail calculus you

1029
00:38:38,310 --> 00:38:36,720
know you're like i'm not good at this

1030
00:38:40,390 --> 00:38:38,320
well what do you do you take it again

1031
00:38:42,150 --> 00:38:40,400
until you learn it i took a class three

1032
00:38:43,910 --> 00:38:42,160
times and

1033
00:38:45,190 --> 00:38:43,920
i know i needed it for engineering and i

1034
00:38:46,710 --> 00:38:45,200
wasn't going to be an engineer if i

1035
00:38:48,630 --> 00:38:46,720
wasn't going to if i didn't take

1036
00:38:49,990 --> 00:38:48,640
electromagnetic theory and by the third

1037
00:38:52,069 --> 00:38:50,000
time i took it i learned it and thank

1038
00:38:55,349 --> 00:38:52,079
god you know but

1039
00:38:58,390 --> 00:38:55,359
but but it is the the biggest issue that

1040
00:39:01,270 --> 00:38:58,400
we have is retaining the kids in those

1041
00:39:02,710 --> 00:39:01,280
careers you know once they fail or they

1042
00:39:05,270 --> 00:39:02,720
find that they're not doing

1043
00:39:06,950 --> 00:39:05,280
so well in a class that is required then

1044
00:39:08,870 --> 00:39:06,960
they drop out and then go into some

1045
00:39:11,030 --> 00:39:08,880
other field that is a lot easier so we

1046
00:39:13,109 --> 00:39:11,040
have to encourage them to to stick the

1047
00:39:14,550 --> 00:39:13,119
path and it's hard it's not easy but

1048
00:39:15,910 --> 00:39:14,560
they can do it if they put forth the

1049
00:39:17,270 --> 00:39:15,920
effort and i know

1050
00:39:19,589 --> 00:39:17,280
you know some of us had to go through a

1051
00:39:22,630 --> 00:39:19,599
lot of things to to to to do it but it

1052
00:39:24,790 --> 00:39:22,640
is it is it is possible so and and that

1053
00:39:26,550 --> 00:39:24,800
actually happened to me too i was in an

1054
00:39:28,950 --> 00:39:26,560
undergrad and i was taking physics for

1055
00:39:31,270 --> 00:39:28,960
the first time uh graduate you know

1056
00:39:33,430 --> 00:39:31,280
undergrad physics and i took the first

1057
00:39:34,790 --> 00:39:33,440
exam and said no this is not for me i'm

1058
00:39:37,510 --> 00:39:34,800
gonna do electrical engineer because

1059
00:39:39,910 --> 00:39:37,520
that's what i like i like electricity uh

1060
00:39:41,829 --> 00:39:39,920
everything that is abstract and when

1061
00:39:43,990 --> 00:39:41,839
that time i actually had to when i

1062
00:39:46,310 --> 00:39:44,000
wanted to withdraw from the whole uh

1063
00:39:48,150 --> 00:39:46,320
major you had the professor had to sign

1064
00:39:50,310 --> 00:39:48,160
it the one that it was the the chair of

1065
00:39:51,910 --> 00:39:50,320
the faculty and he was the same

1066
00:39:54,310 --> 00:39:51,920
professor that was giving me the physics

1067
00:39:55,910 --> 00:39:54,320
course and he said no you're not going

1068
00:39:57,750 --> 00:39:55,920
and i said well i need you to sign this

1069
00:39:59,589 --> 00:39:57,760
and he's like no i'm not going to sign

1070
00:40:01,829 --> 00:39:59,599
and i said i have a c in your class he's

1071
00:40:03,670 --> 00:40:01,839
like yeah from the first exam take it

1072
00:40:05,589 --> 00:40:03,680
easy because you know the first exam is

1073
00:40:07,589 --> 00:40:05,599
always the the hardest

1074
00:40:10,470 --> 00:40:07,599
you're going to be a great physicist one

1075
00:40:13,109 --> 00:40:10,480
day and that was a turn on point for me

1076
00:40:15,109 --> 00:40:13,119
because if he hadn't done that who knows

1077
00:40:16,550 --> 00:40:15,119
where you know i would end up

1078
00:40:18,630 --> 00:40:16,560
right now work for nasa and i'm a

1079
00:40:19,829 --> 00:40:18,640
scientist doing space weather so

1080
00:40:23,109 --> 00:40:19,839
and so you said something really

1081
00:40:25,109 --> 00:40:23,119
important which was the mentors um and

1082
00:40:26,790 --> 00:40:25,119
again with our theme of you know how do

1083
00:40:28,710 --> 00:40:26,800
we find a path forward i know that marla

1084
00:40:31,349 --> 00:40:28,720
and sandra you two have had incredible

1085
00:40:32,710 --> 00:40:31,359
careers very distinguished careers and

1086
00:40:34,630 --> 00:40:32,720
really moving high up the ranks in

1087
00:40:37,430 --> 00:40:34,640
government um could you talk a little

1088
00:40:39,190 --> 00:40:37,440
bit about your personal journeys uh and

1089
00:40:40,950 --> 00:40:39,200
what advice you would have for others

1090
00:40:43,510 --> 00:40:40,960
who want to emulate that who want to

1091
00:40:45,349 --> 00:40:43,520
follow in your footsteps or develop and

1092
00:40:47,750 --> 00:40:45,359
cover path for themselves as they move

1093
00:40:50,790 --> 00:40:47,760
forward with their careers

1094
00:40:52,950 --> 00:40:50,800
so um the first thing mentors let's

1095
00:40:56,870 --> 00:40:52,960
start with uh with mentors i think

1096
00:40:58,790 --> 00:40:56,880
mentors are very important in every

1097
00:41:01,030 --> 00:40:58,800
journey it doesn't matter personal or

1098
00:41:03,190 --> 00:41:01,040
professional but let's take with the uh

1099
00:41:07,030 --> 00:41:03,200
with the stamp when i was growing up in

1100
00:41:08,950 --> 00:41:07,040
puerto rico um i didn't have mentors or

1101
00:41:11,109 --> 00:41:08,960
role models individuals that were

1102
00:41:14,950 --> 00:41:11,119
engineers but as many of them have

1103
00:41:17,910 --> 00:41:14,960
taught i write chemistry and math and

1104
00:41:20,710 --> 00:41:17,920
one good day and this is true story

1105
00:41:23,030 --> 00:41:20,720
i put out a book and i look at the

1106
00:41:25,109 --> 00:41:23,040
definition of an engineer and at that

1107
00:41:27,190 --> 00:41:25,119
point in time there was not as many type

1108
00:41:29,430 --> 00:41:27,200
of engineers that we have now so there

1109
00:41:30,790 --> 00:41:29,440
was just the basic you know electrical

1110
00:41:33,270 --> 00:41:30,800
chemical

1111
00:41:36,550 --> 00:41:33,280
civil engineers so i look at those and i

1112
00:41:39,190 --> 00:41:36,560
said oh i like chemistry and i like math

1113
00:41:41,510 --> 00:41:39,200
so i'm going to be a chemical engineer

1114
00:41:43,750 --> 00:41:41,520
so i went to my chemistry teacher very

1115
00:41:45,990 --> 00:41:43,760
excited about i i know what i'm going to

1116
00:41:47,670 --> 00:41:46,000
be i'm going to be a chemical engineer

1117
00:41:50,470 --> 00:41:47,680
and my teacher said why you want to be

1118
00:41:52,069 --> 00:41:50,480
that you cannot be an engineer

1119
00:41:55,510 --> 00:41:52,079
so um

1120
00:41:57,750 --> 00:41:55,520
my heart was broken but i just like many

1121
00:41:59,270 --> 00:41:57,760
of us you know it's just okay listen but

1122
00:42:01,109 --> 00:41:59,280
not listen

1123
00:42:03,190 --> 00:42:01,119
i'm determined to be on a chemical

1124
00:42:05,589 --> 00:42:03,200
engineer so

1125
00:42:07,910 --> 00:42:05,599
i went to the only engineering school at

1126
00:42:09,750 --> 00:42:07,920
that point in puerto rico which is uh

1127
00:42:11,589 --> 00:42:09,760
was university of puerto rico maya west

1128
00:42:12,950 --> 00:42:11,599
number of engineer schools these days

1129
00:42:14,470 --> 00:42:12,960
but at that point in time there was only

1130
00:42:16,390 --> 00:42:14,480
one and

1131
00:42:17,910 --> 00:42:16,400
i started chemical engineering so

1132
00:42:19,829 --> 00:42:17,920
looking back i could be very wrong

1133
00:42:21,990 --> 00:42:19,839
because again i didn't have the benefit

1134
00:42:24,470 --> 00:42:22,000
of having role models or

1135
00:42:25,829 --> 00:42:24,480
other engineers around

1136
00:42:27,270 --> 00:42:25,839
i had been

1137
00:42:29,750 --> 00:42:27,280
very

1138
00:42:33,109 --> 00:42:29,760
fortunate to have the career that i have

1139
00:42:34,230 --> 00:42:33,119
and i get there now to my responsibility

1140
00:42:36,710 --> 00:42:34,240
so

1141
00:42:39,270 --> 00:42:36,720
i truly believe on mentors i have

1142
00:42:42,069 --> 00:42:39,280
mentors all my career since i started

1143
00:42:44,150 --> 00:42:42,079
nasa and some of them have stick through

1144
00:42:46,230 --> 00:42:44,160
the journey some of them has been you

1145
00:42:49,589 --> 00:42:46,240
know for a period of time but i think

1146
00:42:51,589 --> 00:42:49,599
the value of mentorship is incredible uh

1147
00:42:54,390 --> 00:42:51,599
the other thing is

1148
00:42:56,630 --> 00:42:54,400
once you start getting in your career

1149
00:42:59,349 --> 00:42:56,640
you also have the responsibility now to

1150
00:43:01,670 --> 00:42:59,359
pay back you've got to be a mentor you

1151
00:43:05,270 --> 00:43:01,680
have to be a mentor i think that's the

1152
00:43:07,510 --> 00:43:05,280
way that one tap some of that um

1153
00:43:10,230 --> 00:43:07,520
knowledge that is out there that's the

1154
00:43:14,069 --> 00:43:10,240
way that we inspire motivated people

1155
00:43:16,390 --> 00:43:14,079
it is not just for um students is also

1156
00:43:18,630 --> 00:43:16,400
in the workplace i think the value of

1157
00:43:20,710 --> 00:43:18,640
mentorship is incredible

1158
00:43:23,030 --> 00:43:20,720
i can tell you that every time i mentor

1159
00:43:25,190 --> 00:43:23,040
someone i learn as much as hopefully

1160
00:43:27,270 --> 00:43:25,200
they learn from me because it is a

1161
00:43:29,510 --> 00:43:27,280
two-way street it's not just one-way

1162
00:43:32,150 --> 00:43:29,520
street the value of mentorship is

1163
00:43:33,349 --> 00:43:32,160
incredible so i really ask everyone in

1164
00:43:35,910 --> 00:43:33,359
this room and the ones that are

1165
00:43:38,069 --> 00:43:35,920
listening please find time to mentor

1166
00:43:38,790 --> 00:43:38,079
find the time to mentor someone at you

1167
00:43:41,910 --> 00:43:38,800
know

1168
00:43:44,150 --> 00:43:41,920
school level um universities at the

1169
00:43:46,150 --> 00:43:44,160
workplace and

1170
00:43:47,829 --> 00:43:46,160
or you know it's one of those things

1171
00:43:50,150 --> 00:43:47,839
that you never know what you're gonna

1172
00:43:52,390 --> 00:43:50,160
get out of it sometimes it doesn't work

1173
00:43:53,750 --> 00:43:52,400
so let's be clear um there's something

1174
00:43:55,990 --> 00:43:53,760
about the chemistry between the

1175
00:43:58,470 --> 00:43:56,000
individuals but that also is a learning

1176
00:44:00,790 --> 00:43:58,480
by itself so

1177
00:44:02,870 --> 00:44:00,800
that would be you know my advice to

1178
00:44:05,270 --> 00:44:02,880
individuals find someone that is in your

1179
00:44:07,829 --> 00:44:05,280
career path someone that is not because

1180
00:44:10,550 --> 00:44:07,839
sometimes we get very narrow in terms of

1181
00:44:13,510 --> 00:44:10,560
we understand our world and we forgot

1182
00:44:15,589 --> 00:44:13,520
that there's other worlds out there so

1183
00:44:17,670 --> 00:44:15,599
find someone also that is not in your

1184
00:44:18,950 --> 00:44:17,680
field because that's the way to make

1185
00:44:21,990 --> 00:44:18,960
sure that you

1186
00:44:24,550 --> 00:44:22,000
connect and you also express the value

1187
00:44:26,230 --> 00:44:24,560
of what you do in stem and how all these

1188
00:44:28,150 --> 00:44:26,240
fields are related i think you know it

1189
00:44:31,030 --> 00:44:28,160
was mentioned everything is stems are

1190
00:44:33,270 --> 00:44:31,040
everywhere so the value of technology is

1191
00:44:35,670 --> 00:44:33,280
in every single step that we

1192
00:44:38,309 --> 00:44:35,680
take these days and um so that's so that

1193
00:44:40,230 --> 00:44:38,319
would be my my advice sandra please so i

1194
00:44:41,670 --> 00:44:40,240
didn't have a mentors when i was little

1195
00:44:43,670 --> 00:44:41,680
i only had a

1196
00:44:45,990 --> 00:44:43,680
bold dream and a mother who was very

1197
00:44:47,829 --> 00:44:46,000
encouraging and uh my mother didn't

1198
00:44:51,030 --> 00:44:47,839
finish high school but to her uh you

1199
00:44:52,710 --> 00:44:51,040
know she knew that the ticket to uh um

1200
00:44:54,550 --> 00:44:52,720
be you know have a have a life and

1201
00:44:56,309 --> 00:44:54,560
everything was uh to education to do

1202
00:44:58,630 --> 00:44:56,319
education and then to really uh be

1203
00:44:59,990 --> 00:44:58,640
whoever you wanted to be and when i told

1204
00:45:01,670 --> 00:45:00,000
her i wanted to go to the moon and she

1205
00:45:03,109 --> 00:45:01,680
says sure you know put your mind to it

1206
00:45:04,950 --> 00:45:03,119
and she never told me i couldn't you

1207
00:45:06,870 --> 00:45:04,960
know so i tried to go to the moon i

1208
00:45:09,829 --> 00:45:06,880
never went to the moon of course but uh

1209
00:45:12,870 --> 00:45:09,839
but you know the the only time when i

1210
00:45:16,550 --> 00:45:12,880
first had a uh somebody who could

1211
00:45:19,270 --> 00:45:16,560
be a mentor the potential mentor was a a

1212
00:45:20,790 --> 00:45:19,280
high school math teacher

1213
00:45:22,710 --> 00:45:20,800
and she

1214
00:45:24,390 --> 00:45:22,720
i had a conversation with her and you

1215
00:45:26,150 --> 00:45:24,400
know i liked math and

1216
00:45:28,390 --> 00:45:26,160
i was it wasn't that i was good at it i

1217
00:45:30,870 --> 00:45:28,400
just work hard and she said you know you

1218
00:45:33,990 --> 00:45:30,880
ought to look at the study in um

1219
00:45:36,150 --> 00:45:34,000
engineering and she says i tried and i

1220
00:45:37,990 --> 00:45:36,160
couldn't because um you know i'm a woman

1221
00:45:39,510 --> 00:45:38,000
and whatever but maybe nowadays you can

1222
00:45:41,430 --> 00:45:39,520
well when i graduated and went to

1223
00:45:42,550 --> 00:45:41,440
college i sort of happened like marla

1224
00:45:45,109 --> 00:45:42,560
happened they told me i couldn't be an

1225
00:45:47,589 --> 00:45:45,119
engineer because i was a woman um so you

1226
00:45:49,510 --> 00:45:47,599
know i spent um they let me study

1227
00:45:51,349 --> 00:45:49,520
industrial engineering which

1228
00:45:52,630 --> 00:45:51,359
it was still engineering but in and they

1229
00:45:53,829 --> 00:45:52,640
said it was the lady like engineering

1230
00:45:54,950 --> 00:45:53,839
because there were four girls in the

1231
00:45:56,069 --> 00:45:54,960
program

1232
00:45:57,910 --> 00:45:56,079
um

1233
00:45:59,109 --> 00:45:57,920
but i still wanted to study electrical

1234
00:46:00,710 --> 00:45:59,119
and you know after doing a little

1235
00:46:02,309 --> 00:46:00,720
research as to the various disciplines

1236
00:46:03,430 --> 00:46:02,319
and everything i was bound and

1237
00:46:04,790 --> 00:46:03,440
determined that i wanted to be an

1238
00:46:06,710 --> 00:46:04,800
electrical engineer so i tried to

1239
00:46:08,309 --> 00:46:06,720
transfer it a couple of times and they

1240
00:46:09,829 --> 00:46:08,319
still turned me down so my heart was

1241
00:46:11,670 --> 00:46:09,839
broken like marvelous

1242
00:46:12,950 --> 00:46:11,680
and that's when i decided to come to the

1243
00:46:15,190 --> 00:46:12,960
states and

1244
00:46:16,870 --> 00:46:15,200
and you know i threw away basically

1245
00:46:19,829 --> 00:46:16,880
seven semesters of education i had in

1246
00:46:21,829 --> 00:46:19,839
costa rica and i changed majors and i

1247
00:46:24,069 --> 00:46:21,839
finally graduated with a double major

1248
00:46:26,069 --> 00:46:24,079
electrical engineering and physics and

1249
00:46:28,390 --> 00:46:26,079
um and you know took me seven years

1250
00:46:30,390 --> 00:46:28,400
stuck the path you know but you know

1251
00:46:31,750 --> 00:46:30,400
i've always tried to find mentors i've

1252
00:46:34,390 --> 00:46:31,760
always tried to

1253
00:46:35,990 --> 00:46:34,400
seek out the help of others uh you have

1254
00:46:37,190 --> 00:46:36,000
to speak up if you need help you cannot

1255
00:46:39,109 --> 00:46:37,200
you know people don't know that you need

1256
00:46:41,190 --> 00:46:39,119
help if you don't if you need help go

1257
00:46:42,790 --> 00:46:41,200
and and ask for the help you know people

1258
00:46:43,750 --> 00:46:42,800
don't read minds

1259
00:46:47,750 --> 00:46:43,760
and

1260
00:46:51,190 --> 00:46:47,760
waiting for mentees to come to them you

1261
00:46:52,950 --> 00:46:51,200
know go and ask people and and and i've

1262
00:46:54,630 --> 00:46:52,960
always tried to have more than one

1263
00:46:56,630 --> 00:46:54,640
mentor and the best mentors that i have

1264
00:46:57,510 --> 00:46:56,640
ever had the mentors that are listening

1265
00:46:59,270 --> 00:46:57,520
to me

1266
00:47:00,630 --> 00:46:59,280
that are really

1267
00:47:01,829 --> 00:47:00,640
trying to

1268
00:47:04,069 --> 00:47:01,839
extract

1269
00:47:05,510 --> 00:47:04,079
the my thoughts and not tell me what to

1270
00:47:07,990 --> 00:47:05,520
do but they

1271
00:47:11,109 --> 00:47:08,000
helped me figure it out on my own how

1272
00:47:12,950 --> 00:47:11,119
i'm going to do things on my own way and

1273
00:47:13,750 --> 00:47:12,960
um you know so and

1274
00:47:16,309 --> 00:47:13,760
and

1275
00:47:18,950 --> 00:47:16,319
i also like to mentor people now that i

1276
00:47:21,190 --> 00:47:18,960
have uh that i mean you know i have

1277
00:47:23,430 --> 00:47:21,200
grown up i guess in my career and you

1278
00:47:25,589 --> 00:47:23,440
know have so many years here and you

1279
00:47:28,309 --> 00:47:25,599
know the up-and-coming generation

1280
00:47:30,630 --> 00:47:28,319
and uh and i tried to kind of do the

1281
00:47:33,030 --> 00:47:30,640
same thing that my older mentors did you

1282
00:47:34,630 --> 00:47:33,040
know listen to them and try to ask them

1283
00:47:35,910 --> 00:47:34,640
questions so they can figure out their

1284
00:47:38,069 --> 00:47:35,920
own path you know because it's not what

1285
00:47:40,150 --> 00:47:38,079
i tell them to do that is going to make

1286
00:47:41,990 --> 00:47:40,160
or break them is what they figured out

1287
00:47:45,109 --> 00:47:42,000
how they are going to proceed on their

1288
00:47:47,430 --> 00:47:45,119
own uh but mentorship mentoring is is so

1289
00:47:49,349 --> 00:47:47,440
important and asking for help if you

1290
00:47:51,190 --> 00:47:49,359
don't know something you go and ask for

1291
00:47:53,270 --> 00:47:51,200
help i mean there is more than you know

1292
00:47:56,150 --> 00:47:53,280
there are a lot of angels out there who

1293
00:47:57,829 --> 00:47:56,160
are willing to help you succeed and help

1294
00:47:59,349 --> 00:47:57,839
you with whatever you know things that

1295
00:48:01,190 --> 00:47:59,359
you need so uh

1296
00:48:03,190 --> 00:48:01,200
don't don't stop asking questions and

1297
00:48:05,430 --> 00:48:03,200
don't stop seeking mentors

1298
00:48:07,030 --> 00:48:05,440
i know tony you wanted to chime in on

1299
00:48:08,870 --> 00:48:07,040
that and what i wanted to do was also

1300
00:48:10,470 --> 00:48:08,880
present an additional question for you

1301
00:48:12,790 --> 00:48:10,480
and marilee

1302
00:48:14,790 --> 00:48:12,800
in terms of the work that you all that

1303
00:48:16,470 --> 00:48:14,800
you do at hispanic heritage foundation

1304
00:48:18,790 --> 00:48:16,480
deals a lot with these competitions

1305
00:48:21,750 --> 00:48:18,800
right coding competition and stem so i

1306
00:48:23,670 --> 00:48:21,760
wanted you to also comment on um you

1307
00:48:26,630 --> 00:48:23,680
know how important are these and how are

1308
00:48:28,870 --> 00:48:26,640
they engaging that next generation and

1309
00:48:30,870 --> 00:48:28,880
inspiring them and opening doors for

1310
00:48:32,710 --> 00:48:30,880
them so the first thing is going back to

1311
00:48:34,710 --> 00:48:32,720
the role model thing it it's really

1312
00:48:36,630 --> 00:48:34,720
important that we also promote young

1313
00:48:39,190 --> 00:48:36,640
role models there's a young woman named

1314
00:48:40,390 --> 00:48:39,200
sophia sanchez maes who is now actually

1315
00:48:43,109 --> 00:48:40,400
at jpl

1316
00:48:45,589 --> 00:48:43,119
even though she's a junior in college

1317
00:48:48,630 --> 00:48:45,599
and she's working there she was coded

1318
00:48:51,510 --> 00:48:48,640
for the mars rover at 16 years old

1319
00:48:53,190 --> 00:48:51,520
she developed i think the most efficient

1320
00:48:55,270 --> 00:48:53,200
way of turning

1321
00:48:56,950 --> 00:48:55,280
algae into a biofuel

1322
00:48:58,549 --> 00:48:56,960
that's ever been done when she was like

1323
00:49:02,069 --> 00:48:58,559
14 years old out of las cruces new

1324
00:49:04,230 --> 00:49:02,079
mexico so sophia to me is more important

1325
00:49:06,950 --> 00:49:04,240
than anyone to be a role model because

1326
00:49:09,109 --> 00:49:06,960
she's currently still a teenager

1327
00:49:11,910 --> 00:49:09,119
and having a huge impact

1328
00:49:13,670 --> 00:49:11,920
through our organization when we

1329
00:49:15,829 --> 00:49:13,680
awarded her with the youth award part of

1330
00:49:18,470 --> 00:49:15,839
it was sending out a public awareness

1331
00:49:19,829 --> 00:49:18,480
campaign based on her accomplishments

1332
00:49:21,190 --> 00:49:19,839
and on her

1333
00:49:22,470 --> 00:49:21,200
um

1334
00:49:24,549 --> 00:49:22,480
radiating

1335
00:49:27,030 --> 00:49:24,559
that possibilities that everyone she can

1336
00:49:28,230 --> 00:49:27,040
have through a natural curiosity

1337
00:49:31,349 --> 00:49:28,240
so

1338
00:49:33,589 --> 00:49:31,359
i remember setting up a a panel and i

1339
00:49:35,270 --> 00:49:33,599
had ellen ochoa on the panel

1340
00:49:37,510 --> 00:49:35,280
and i had sophia and at that time i

1341
00:49:39,349 --> 00:49:37,520
think she was 17 and elena joe of course

1342
00:49:41,190 --> 00:49:39,359
as accomplished as you can get

1343
00:49:42,950 --> 00:49:41,200
and it was interesting as she walked up

1344
00:49:44,390 --> 00:49:42,960
and said you know you're my role model

1345
00:49:45,829 --> 00:49:44,400
and i said you know it's even more

1346
00:49:47,349 --> 00:49:45,839
important that you're somebody's role

1347
00:49:49,190 --> 00:49:47,359
model right now

1348
00:49:51,190 --> 00:49:49,200
um because of everything that she's

1349
00:49:54,309 --> 00:49:51,200
accomplished we work that into our

1350
00:49:55,349 --> 00:49:54,319
programs so for instance aleda alvera

1351
00:49:56,790 --> 00:49:55,359
who's a

1352
00:49:59,190 --> 00:49:56,800
sophomore just started her sophomore

1353
00:50:02,150 --> 00:49:59,200
year at georgetown in computer science

1354
00:50:04,150 --> 00:50:02,160
and is also focusing on cyber

1355
00:50:06,710 --> 00:50:04,160
security this young ladies from rio

1356
00:50:08,710 --> 00:50:06,720
grande valley received our fellowship

1357
00:50:10,710 --> 00:50:08,720
for the video gaming then received our

1358
00:50:12,790 --> 00:50:10,720
youth award brought her up to washington

1359
00:50:14,710 --> 00:50:12,800
dc and she wants to do policy kind of

1360
00:50:16,950 --> 00:50:14,720
stem policy and computer science policy

1361
00:50:19,589 --> 00:50:16,960
well she's teaching our code as a second

1362
00:50:22,470 --> 00:50:19,599
language program in the dc area

1363
00:50:23,990 --> 00:50:22,480
at seven at 18 years old

1364
00:50:26,069 --> 00:50:24,000
and she's the one that's going from the

1365
00:50:28,470 --> 00:50:26,079
different schools and and introducing

1366
00:50:30,549 --> 00:50:28,480
kids to coding so it's really important

1367
00:50:32,150 --> 00:50:30,559
that programmatically

1368
00:50:33,190 --> 00:50:32,160
that you're out there

1369
00:50:36,710 --> 00:50:33,200
pushing

1370
00:50:38,309 --> 00:50:36,720
um the stem fields as a viable option

1371
00:50:39,670 --> 00:50:38,319
for youth and a lot of times it's really

1372
00:50:42,309 --> 00:50:39,680
important that you have somebody that's

1373
00:50:44,950 --> 00:50:42,319
near their age as much as you appreciate

1374
00:50:47,030 --> 00:50:44,960
a male 70 year old ex-engineer teaching

1375
00:50:50,470 --> 00:50:47,040
a 15-year-old girl i think it's more

1376
00:50:52,150 --> 00:50:50,480
important to have a 19 20 21 year old

1377
00:50:53,670 --> 00:50:52,160
young woman teaching

1378
00:50:55,349 --> 00:50:53,680
the girls about stem and that's the

1379
00:50:56,549 --> 00:50:55,359
importance of all of you too being

1380
00:50:58,630 --> 00:50:56,559
latina

1381
00:50:59,990 --> 00:50:58,640
uh to have that resonate

1382
00:51:02,309 --> 00:51:00,000
the other thing that we're doing and i

1383
00:51:03,510 --> 00:51:02,319
have to give credit to uh jasmine right

1384
00:51:05,510 --> 00:51:03,520
there um

1385
00:51:07,750 --> 00:51:05,520
samurano who's

1386
00:51:10,069 --> 00:51:07,760
oversees our programs i mean she just

1387
00:51:12,790 --> 00:51:10,079
developed this program where we

1388
00:51:13,910 --> 00:51:12,800
go into 15 different communities

1389
00:51:16,230 --> 00:51:13,920
and

1390
00:51:18,549 --> 00:51:16,240
the kids actually can hack a career in

1391
00:51:20,630 --> 00:51:18,559
stem and work with experts like some of

1392
00:51:21,670 --> 00:51:20,640
you to act and with a curriculum to

1393
00:51:23,510 --> 00:51:21,680
actually

1394
00:51:25,990 --> 00:51:23,520
work through what their career looked

1395
00:51:28,790 --> 00:51:26,000
like so all of you are now going to be

1396
00:51:30,309 --> 00:51:28,800
hit on to be part of this program and

1397
00:51:32,390 --> 00:51:30,319
young people actually work through what

1398
00:51:34,470 --> 00:51:32,400
that career would look like

1399
00:51:36,870 --> 00:51:34,480
and it really lays out a path but they

1400
00:51:38,710 --> 00:51:36,880
then get to go back and do research and

1401
00:51:40,870 --> 00:51:38,720
see what those careers would be like and

1402
00:51:42,630 --> 00:51:40,880
i'm hearing that a lot in terms of the

1403
00:51:44,870 --> 00:51:42,640
exposure that you had luckily you were

1404
00:51:46,470 --> 00:51:44,880
cabeza luros and just went ahead after

1405
00:51:48,309 --> 00:51:46,480
somebody was trying to discourage you

1406
00:51:50,069 --> 00:51:48,319
but we want to make sure to encourage

1407
00:51:52,069 --> 00:51:50,079
and all of you play such a significant

1408
00:51:54,630 --> 00:51:52,079
role in doing that

1409
00:51:57,270 --> 00:51:54,640
and this is a great segue because these

1410
00:51:59,430 --> 00:51:57,280
competitions give students and the

1411
00:52:00,950 --> 00:51:59,440
teachers an opportunity of what it looks

1412
00:52:03,030 --> 00:52:00,960
in real life

1413
00:52:05,190 --> 00:52:03,040
you can't really aspire to be a

1414
00:52:07,190 --> 00:52:05,200
scientist if you don't see what it is

1415
00:52:08,630 --> 00:52:07,200
like you can't aspire to be an engineer

1416
00:52:10,549 --> 00:52:08,640
especially when you're in high school if

1417
00:52:13,190 --> 00:52:10,559
you don't see what it's like so these

1418
00:52:15,510 --> 00:52:13,200
competitions more than just competing is

1419
00:52:17,349 --> 00:52:15,520
really helping each other

1420
00:52:19,670 --> 00:52:17,359
learning that it's an actual team

1421
00:52:22,950 --> 00:52:19,680
competition we didn't land rovers on

1422
00:52:25,430 --> 00:52:22,960
mars by one just individual it was teams

1423
00:52:27,670 --> 00:52:25,440
it was different centers so it really

1424
00:52:30,710 --> 00:52:27,680
brings that opportunity

1425
00:52:33,829 --> 00:52:30,720
to the forefront and also

1426
00:52:36,950 --> 00:52:33,839
makes them more secure that they can

1427
00:52:38,630 --> 00:52:36,960
actually do it and see other people role

1428
00:52:40,549 --> 00:52:38,640
models they can become role models

1429
00:52:43,109 --> 00:52:40,559
themselves right one of my teachers

1430
00:52:45,750 --> 00:52:43,119
calls it a coop petition you're

1431
00:52:48,549 --> 00:52:45,760
cooperating with the other teams but

1432
00:52:49,670 --> 00:52:48,559
it's still a competition so

1433
00:52:52,870 --> 00:52:49,680
as we

1434
00:52:54,950 --> 00:52:52,880
know that we learn different ways these

1435
00:52:58,069 --> 00:52:54,960
stem competitions are not so much about

1436
00:53:01,670 --> 00:52:58,079
competitions but about bringing what it

1437
00:53:03,430 --> 00:53:01,680
is like and really focusing on how we

1438
00:53:04,950 --> 00:53:03,440
need to support each other and lift

1439
00:53:05,829 --> 00:53:04,960
everybody up

1440
00:53:07,349 --> 00:53:05,839
you know

1441
00:53:08,710 --> 00:53:07,359
time really does fly when you're having

1442
00:53:10,870 --> 00:53:08,720
fun and i know that we're reaching the

1443
00:53:12,790 --> 00:53:10,880
end of this particular segment before we

1444
00:53:15,030 --> 00:53:12,800
uh have some questions from the audience

1445
00:53:17,270 --> 00:53:15,040
and those watching on the live stream

1446
00:53:19,670 --> 00:53:17,280
but i wanted to give that last question

1447
00:53:21,990 --> 00:53:19,680
to yadi and carolina and i know that

1448
00:53:23,750 --> 00:53:22,000
yada you were the co-host for the

1449
00:53:26,069 --> 00:53:23,760
solar eclipse

1450
00:53:28,230 --> 00:53:26,079
television television program that nasa

1451
00:53:30,790 --> 00:53:28,240
put together and i wanted to focus in on

1452
00:53:32,710 --> 00:53:30,800
the communication piece uh and also

1453
00:53:35,190 --> 00:53:32,720
carolina right how can we be using these

1454
00:53:38,390 --> 00:53:35,200
different methods of communication to be

1455
00:53:40,630 --> 00:53:38,400
doing better outreach to inspiring folks

1456
00:53:43,109 --> 00:53:40,640
and to just think of new ways of really

1457
00:53:44,790 --> 00:53:43,119
being able to engage a young public in a

1458
00:53:46,870 --> 00:53:44,800
public that maybe had not thought about

1459
00:53:48,470 --> 00:53:46,880
science and saying whoa i can be part of

1460
00:53:50,549 --> 00:53:48,480
this if you could talk a little bit

1461
00:53:52,870 --> 00:53:50,559
about that please i would actually like

1462
00:53:54,829 --> 00:53:52,880
to piggyback on what you said earlier as

1463
00:53:59,030 --> 00:53:54,839
far as being present

1464
00:54:01,510 --> 00:53:59,040
and being just

1465
00:54:04,390 --> 00:54:01,520
a person that's very approachable that

1466
00:54:07,190 --> 00:54:04,400
students can talk to and so forth

1467
00:54:08,470 --> 00:54:07,200
i find that with a lot of the university

1468
00:54:11,349 --> 00:54:08,480
students

1469
00:54:14,230 --> 00:54:11,359
when they come across a class that they

1470
00:54:16,309 --> 00:54:14,240
are now struggling with oh i guess

1471
00:54:19,750 --> 00:54:16,319
science wasn't meant for me

1472
00:54:22,630 --> 00:54:19,760
they don't hear enough

1473
00:54:25,910 --> 00:54:22,640
how many times as an accomplished

1474
00:54:29,030 --> 00:54:27,510
take a class over

1475
00:54:32,230 --> 00:54:29,040
you know how many

1476
00:54:35,270 --> 00:54:32,240
parties they may have missed how much

1477
00:54:38,230 --> 00:54:35,280
work they didn't get to do and the real

1478
00:54:40,069 --> 00:54:38,240
issue is many of the students that i

1479
00:54:44,549 --> 00:54:40,079
work with

1480
00:54:47,510 --> 00:54:44,559
it's again it's a it's a trade-off

1481
00:54:50,230 --> 00:54:47,520
if i am putting this much time and

1482
00:54:53,109 --> 00:54:50,240
energy into my school

1483
00:54:56,069 --> 00:54:53,119
how do i have time and energy for this

1484
00:54:58,630 --> 00:54:56,079
part-time job that i absolutely need

1485
00:55:00,710 --> 00:54:58,640
because i don't have gas in my car i

1486
00:55:01,589 --> 00:55:00,720
cannot get to school without gas in my

1487
00:55:02,390 --> 00:55:01,599
car

1488
00:55:05,109 --> 00:55:02,400
so

1489
00:55:08,789 --> 00:55:05,119
i see that students are

1490
00:55:12,309 --> 00:55:08,799
are trying to balance these items and so

1491
00:55:16,710 --> 00:55:12,319
i um i think that the communication

1492
00:55:19,109 --> 00:55:16,720
to them is extremely important and

1493
00:55:21,190 --> 00:55:19,119
the trust it's not only to the students

1494
00:55:23,349 --> 00:55:21,200
but to their parents

1495
00:55:25,270 --> 00:55:23,359
they have to trust

1496
00:55:27,430 --> 00:55:25,280
that this is all going to be worth it

1497
00:55:29,430 --> 00:55:27,440
and i think that a lot of what you do

1498
00:55:32,870 --> 00:55:29,440
and being very present for the students

1499
00:55:34,309 --> 00:55:32,880
is extremely important thank you

1500
00:55:35,750 --> 00:55:34,319
and it's a different environment right

1501
00:55:38,230 --> 00:55:35,760
high school is very different than you

1502
00:55:39,910 --> 00:55:38,240
go to college and i mean it's like the

1503
00:55:42,470 --> 00:55:39,920
trade-off of the work that you have to

1504
00:55:44,470 --> 00:55:42,480
do is super different and some kids just

1505
00:55:46,150 --> 00:55:44,480
get shocked by that and they have to

1506
00:55:49,670 --> 00:55:46,160
understand that you have to work hard if

1507
00:55:51,270 --> 00:55:49,680
what to do what you really love to do um

1508
00:55:52,710 --> 00:55:51,280
talking about the clips one of the

1509
00:55:54,870 --> 00:55:52,720
things that was

1510
00:55:56,710 --> 00:55:54,880
that i did very interesting but i really

1511
00:55:57,910 --> 00:55:56,720
wanted people to know that i was from

1512
00:56:01,190 --> 00:55:57,920
puerto rico

1513
00:56:03,750 --> 00:56:01,200
i actually were a teacher that was from

1514
00:56:05,990 --> 00:56:03,760
my university and i had the logo of the

1515
00:56:08,870 --> 00:56:06,000
university of puerto rico

1516
00:56:10,549 --> 00:56:08,880
um and the thing is that i innocently

1517
00:56:12,150 --> 00:56:10,559
right i i thought oh yeah the university

1518
00:56:14,549 --> 00:56:12,160
is going to find out in a couple days

1519
00:56:17,589 --> 00:56:14,559
that i wore the shirt

1520
00:56:19,829 --> 00:56:17,599
while i was there doing the tv show my

1521
00:56:22,950 --> 00:56:19,839
phone didn't stop vibrating

1522
00:56:24,549 --> 00:56:22,960
and it was all people from maya west

1523
00:56:26,789 --> 00:56:24,559
sending texts to

1524
00:56:29,190 --> 00:56:26,799
friends that friends that knew me and

1525
00:56:31,589 --> 00:56:29,200
then my friends were texting me and like

1526
00:56:34,230 --> 00:56:31,599
my facebook account was you know

1527
00:56:36,710 --> 00:56:34,240
bombarded with posts and it was amazing

1528
00:56:38,549 --> 00:56:36,720
and i i thought wow i i knew that it was

1529
00:56:40,789 --> 00:56:38,559
going to be an impact but i didn't

1530
00:56:43,750 --> 00:56:40,799
expect it to be that big

1531
00:56:45,030 --> 00:56:43,760
and it's because i took the opportunity

1532
00:56:48,150 --> 00:56:45,040
that i had

1533
00:56:50,309 --> 00:56:48,160
being in a tv show right to say i am

1534
00:56:53,270 --> 00:56:50,319
here you can also be here

1535
00:56:55,510 --> 00:56:53,280
um but like i said it was an amazing and

1536
00:56:56,549 --> 00:56:55,520
unexpected reaction

1537
00:56:59,030 --> 00:56:56,559
wonderful

1538
00:57:02,309 --> 00:56:59,040
well um we definitely want to give the

1539
00:57:04,710 --> 00:57:02,319
audience uh both here and watching uh on

1540
00:57:07,109 --> 00:57:04,720
live stream to be able to participate in

1541
00:57:08,710 --> 00:57:07,119
this conversation so uh there's a mic

1542
00:57:10,950 --> 00:57:08,720
going around if there are any questions

1543
00:57:13,030 --> 00:57:10,960
if you could please raise your hand and

1544
00:57:14,870 --> 00:57:13,040
we'll make sure that the mic goes to you

1545
00:57:16,870 --> 00:57:14,880
uh and if they're

1546
00:57:18,309 --> 00:57:16,880
i see one in the back hi and thank you

1547
00:57:21,030 --> 00:57:18,319
again for the panel it was very very

1548
00:57:22,630 --> 00:57:21,040
interesting um i want to follow up on a

1549
00:57:25,910 --> 00:57:22,640
couple of things that you've all

1550
00:57:27,510 --> 00:57:25,920
mentioned um and specifically tony uh

1551
00:57:29,430 --> 00:57:27,520
making the point of the million dollar

1552
00:57:30,470 --> 00:57:29,440
job on stems

1553
00:57:32,309 --> 00:57:30,480
um

1554
00:57:35,270 --> 00:57:32,319
i think it's important and i want your

1555
00:57:37,670 --> 00:57:35,280
opinion to give kids choices

1556
00:57:39,349 --> 00:57:37,680
so it was very interesting how elvis

1557
00:57:41,349 --> 00:57:39,359
asked me as i what i need to do when

1558
00:57:42,789 --> 00:57:41,359
you've got an answer saying well you

1559
00:57:45,270 --> 00:57:42,799
need to follow a curriculum and you had

1560
00:57:50,069 --> 00:57:45,280
no idea what a curriculum was

1561
00:57:54,390 --> 00:57:52,230
what is your opinion on when you're

1562
00:57:56,150 --> 00:57:54,400
doing these presentations to kids

1563
00:57:57,670 --> 00:57:56,160
to provide them with a wide array of

1564
00:57:59,270 --> 00:57:57,680
options that

1565
00:58:01,670 --> 00:57:59,280
range from

1566
00:58:04,390 --> 00:58:01,680
just doing like a two-year tech

1567
00:58:07,030 --> 00:58:04,400
all the way through phds because

1568
00:58:08,470 --> 00:58:07,040
in each of those steps you have

1569
00:58:09,750 --> 00:58:08,480
you can tap into

1570
00:58:13,030 --> 00:58:09,760
different

1571
00:58:15,109 --> 00:58:13,040
workforces and so maybe a phd is not for

1572
00:58:18,069 --> 00:58:15,119
everybody and maybe a two-year degree is

1573
00:58:20,630 --> 00:58:18,079
not for everybody but when they

1574
00:58:23,910 --> 00:58:20,640
have their eye on nasa what is the range

1575
00:58:28,390 --> 00:58:26,950
access to get a job um because the

1576
00:58:29,670 --> 00:58:28,400
question that you get in high school how

1577
00:58:31,910 --> 00:58:29,680
much money am i going to make it's a

1578
00:58:33,589 --> 00:58:31,920
very real question kids are going to

1579
00:58:35,910 --> 00:58:33,599
have to pay for college if they want to

1580
00:58:38,309 --> 00:58:35,920
go to college is it worth it

1581
00:58:40,870 --> 00:58:38,319
i am a scientist i'm a phd and i find it

1582
00:58:43,030 --> 00:58:40,880
sometimes hard to encourage especially

1583
00:58:45,990 --> 00:58:43,040
young women

1584
00:58:48,390 --> 00:58:46,000
to pursue a phd and i

1585
00:58:49,829 --> 00:58:48,400
am compelled to tell them how

1586
00:58:52,069 --> 00:58:49,839
what are the challenges they're gonna

1587
00:58:54,230 --> 00:58:52,079
find and i think if a person is very is

1588
00:58:55,750 --> 00:58:54,240
really truly inspired and that is what

1589
00:58:58,630 --> 00:58:55,760
they want to do they will follow their

1590
00:59:00,309 --> 00:58:58,640
dream um but it is i find it that we

1591
00:59:02,390 --> 00:59:00,319
need to be honest with them and let them

1592
00:59:03,430 --> 00:59:02,400
know look these are the challenges that

1593
00:59:05,030 --> 00:59:03,440
you're gonna have that you're going to

1594
00:59:07,109 --> 00:59:05,040
find you're not going to be rich you're

1595
00:59:09,109 --> 00:59:07,119
not going to be poor but this is your

1596
00:59:11,109 --> 00:59:09,119
spectrum so i want to hear your opinion

1597
00:59:14,150 --> 00:59:11,119
on what are the dangers or what are the

1598
00:59:17,510 --> 00:59:14,160
pros and cons between um of

1599
00:59:18,549 --> 00:59:17,520
starting to give kids this information

1600
00:59:20,069 --> 00:59:18,559
um

1601
00:59:22,309 --> 00:59:20,079
like you said there's

1602
00:59:25,030 --> 00:59:22,319
pros and cons right to telling the

1603
00:59:26,950 --> 00:59:25,040
information about that's challenges like

1604
00:59:29,109 --> 00:59:26,960
when you say a kid say i want to be a

1605
00:59:31,270 --> 00:59:29,119
scientist then you have to tell them

1606
00:59:33,430 --> 00:59:31,280
that you need a phd to be a scientist

1607
00:59:35,670 --> 00:59:33,440
and probably you'll be at school longer

1608
00:59:37,750 --> 00:59:35,680
that if you want to be an engineer

1609
00:59:40,870 --> 00:59:37,760
but you also have to give them that

1610
00:59:42,630 --> 00:59:40,880
diverse you know curriculum like you you

1611
00:59:44,309 --> 00:59:42,640
want to be scientists then yes you can

1612
00:59:46,150 --> 00:59:44,319
do this but also

1613
00:59:48,230 --> 00:59:46,160
you can also do some kind of scientists

1614
00:59:50,630 --> 00:59:48,240
you do a lot of math like you give them

1615
00:59:52,870 --> 00:59:50,640
that kind of like introduction to the

1616
00:59:54,390 --> 00:59:52,880
reality of things right and engineers

1617
00:59:57,349 --> 00:59:54,400
work with scientists all the time and

1618
00:59:59,829 --> 00:59:57,359
vice versa that's how nasa is built

1619
01:00:02,390 --> 00:59:59,839
um and not only that people also think

1620
01:00:04,549 --> 01:00:02,400
that nasa is composed by only scientists

1621
01:00:06,630 --> 01:00:04,559
engineers that's wrong there's a lot of

1622
01:00:08,549 --> 01:00:06,640
business administration people here and

1623
01:00:10,549 --> 01:00:08,559
a lot of people don't know that and

1624
01:00:13,430 --> 01:00:10,559
that's also another opportunity for them

1625
01:00:16,150 --> 01:00:13,440
to come to work with nasa without people

1626
01:00:17,430 --> 01:00:16,160
controlling and having that kind of

1627
01:00:19,270 --> 01:00:17,440
ability to

1628
01:00:21,030 --> 01:00:19,280
do the management of the projects

1629
01:00:22,789 --> 01:00:21,040
scientists engineers wouldn't be able to

1630
01:00:25,430 --> 01:00:22,799
put things out there right we need

1631
01:00:28,789 --> 01:00:25,440
everybody working together

1632
01:00:31,430 --> 01:00:28,799
i also tell them my story like it wasn't

1633
01:00:34,470 --> 01:00:31,440
i left my island to come here to do my

1634
01:00:36,789 --> 01:00:34,480
phd and i had a master's physics masters

1635
01:00:39,109 --> 01:00:36,799
from university of puerto rico

1636
01:00:41,430 --> 01:00:39,119
but i wanted to be a scientist so i had

1637
01:00:43,670 --> 01:00:41,440
to have my phd so i had to leave my

1638
01:00:46,150 --> 01:00:43,680
island not only that i had to go back

1639
01:00:48,549 --> 01:00:46,160
and forth because i was in a program

1640
01:00:51,270 --> 01:00:48,559
and every time i did that i had to rent

1641
01:00:53,829 --> 01:00:51,280
furniture you know move around all the

1642
01:00:54,710 --> 01:00:53,839
time so it wasn't an easy journey so i

1643
01:00:57,030 --> 01:00:54,720
think

1644
01:00:58,789 --> 01:00:57,040
like i said you know being personal tell

1645
01:01:00,950 --> 01:00:58,799
them your own journey so they know it's

1646
01:01:03,270 --> 01:01:00,960
not going to be easy and also give them

1647
01:01:05,589 --> 01:01:03,280
that diverse curriculum like you can be

1648
01:01:08,870 --> 01:01:05,599
all of this to work for nasa i think it

1649
01:01:11,510 --> 01:01:08,880
helps can i answer that too uh and i

1650
01:01:13,589 --> 01:01:11,520
have to go back to my own kids

1651
01:01:14,870 --> 01:01:13,599
because i mean you want to give just you

1652
01:01:16,230 --> 01:01:14,880
want to treat these kids and give them

1653
01:01:17,030 --> 01:01:16,240
the same advice that you will give your

1654
01:01:20,950 --> 01:01:17,040
own

1655
01:01:22,069 --> 01:01:20,960
oldest son is on his third year on his

1656
01:01:23,030 --> 01:01:22,079
phd

1657
01:01:25,109 --> 01:01:23,040
and

1658
01:01:26,630 --> 01:01:25,119
he has an undergraduate in psychology

1659
01:01:28,470 --> 01:01:26,640
and when he said he was going to be a

1660
01:01:29,829 --> 01:01:28,480
psychologist you know we just kind of my

1661
01:01:31,349 --> 01:01:29,839
husband is a physicist and i'm an

1662
01:01:33,270 --> 01:01:31,359
engineer you know and

1663
01:01:35,109 --> 01:01:33,280
but you know he he decided he wanted to

1664
01:01:37,349 --> 01:01:35,119
he doesn't want to be a doctor and you

1665
01:01:38,870 --> 01:01:37,359
know we try to give him the best honest

1666
01:01:40,870 --> 01:01:38,880
advice that we could you know it wasn't

1667
01:01:42,630 --> 01:01:40,880
going to be easy if you really wanted to

1668
01:01:44,470 --> 01:01:42,640
do something with psychology he had to

1669
01:01:46,549 --> 01:01:44,480
go for an advanced degree and this is

1670
01:01:48,470 --> 01:01:46,559
you know what you do and he did his

1671
01:01:50,710 --> 01:01:48,480
research and he chose to

1672
01:01:51,829 --> 01:01:50,720
get a phd in cognitive systems which is

1673
01:01:53,349 --> 01:01:51,839
sort of like the marriage between

1674
01:01:55,270 --> 01:01:53,359
computers and the brain and don't ask me

1675
01:01:56,870 --> 01:01:55,280
what he's doing now but

1676
01:01:58,950 --> 01:01:56,880
uh and my youngest is different you know

1677
01:02:00,069 --> 01:01:58,960
the kids are all different and you know

1678
01:02:01,589 --> 01:02:00,079
so you

1679
01:02:03,750 --> 01:02:01,599
sometimes you want to give them the best

1680
01:02:04,950 --> 01:02:03,760
advice and the best honest advice but

1681
01:02:06,390 --> 01:02:04,960
again you know going back to the

1682
01:02:08,549 --> 01:02:06,400
mentoring you know

1683
01:02:10,710 --> 01:02:08,559
help them form their own opinions and

1684
01:02:11,910 --> 01:02:10,720
how it's going to work for them because

1685
01:02:13,510 --> 01:02:11,920
i mean i know my kids and i know what

1686
01:02:14,870 --> 01:02:13,520
kind of advice i can give them because i

1687
01:02:17,430 --> 01:02:14,880
know them but i don't know all of these

1688
01:02:18,870 --> 01:02:17,440
kids and you have to extract all that

1689
01:02:20,549 --> 01:02:18,880
from them so they can form their own

1690
01:02:22,230 --> 01:02:20,559
ideas as to what is it that they how

1691
01:02:24,549 --> 01:02:22,240
hard they want to work do they really

1692
01:02:26,390 --> 01:02:24,559
have what it takes to get a phd or not

1693
01:02:28,630 --> 01:02:26,400
does it really you know do they really

1694
01:02:30,950 --> 01:02:28,640
have you know want to be a an engineer

1695
01:02:32,870 --> 01:02:30,960
or or a scientist or a mathematician

1696
01:02:34,390 --> 01:02:32,880
some of them are really good musicians

1697
01:02:35,670 --> 01:02:34,400
and that's all they want to do and it

1698
01:02:37,349 --> 01:02:35,680
doesn't matter you know what you tell

1699
01:02:39,190 --> 01:02:37,359
them they are not going to go in all

1700
01:02:41,190 --> 01:02:39,200
these careers you know but you want them

1701
01:02:42,710 --> 01:02:41,200
to really pursue their passion and do

1702
01:02:45,670 --> 01:02:42,720
something with their lives and and be

1703
01:02:48,309 --> 01:02:45,680
productive members of society so um

1704
01:02:50,230 --> 01:02:48,319
so i would like to add something a

1705
01:02:52,950 --> 01:02:50,240
little bit different i think you know in

1706
01:02:56,150 --> 01:02:52,960
options there's also the power of

1707
01:02:58,710 --> 01:02:56,160
collaborations because we at nasa we

1708
01:03:00,950 --> 01:02:58,720
have a lot of areas that we influence in

1709
01:03:03,750 --> 01:03:00,960
term of technology but sometimes it's

1710
01:03:06,549 --> 01:03:03,760
difficult difficult for us to translate

1711
01:03:08,950 --> 01:03:06,559
that to students so i think that's the

1712
01:03:12,710 --> 01:03:08,960
power of relationship you know with

1713
01:03:15,190 --> 01:03:12,720
universities with our k-12 uh with

1714
01:03:17,510 --> 01:03:15,200
organizations non-profit organizations

1715
01:03:20,069 --> 01:03:17,520
that really get the message out we can't

1716
01:03:23,029 --> 01:03:20,079
take the message to some level but i

1717
01:03:25,430 --> 01:03:23,039
think we need that uh bridge to make

1718
01:03:27,190 --> 01:03:25,440
sure to provide the options in a way

1719
01:03:28,870 --> 01:03:27,200
that they understand i think you know i

1720
01:03:30,230 --> 01:03:28,880
resonate with the curriculum right we

1721
01:03:32,309 --> 01:03:30,240
talk about curriculum like something

1722
01:03:33,910 --> 01:03:32,319
that everybody knows well sometimes

1723
01:03:36,309 --> 01:03:33,920
that's the first question what is the

1724
01:03:38,230 --> 01:03:36,319
curriculum right so i think we need to

1725
01:03:41,109 --> 01:03:38,240
establish that relationship to do the

1726
01:03:43,510 --> 01:03:41,119
translation and really be able to reach

1727
01:03:45,430 --> 01:03:43,520
out to that population and i think it's

1728
01:03:48,950 --> 01:03:45,440
really powerful as we talk about role

1729
01:03:52,309 --> 01:03:48,960
models that rarely is it a a straight

1730
01:03:54,710 --> 01:03:52,319
narrow path it's always sick sagging you

1731
01:03:56,630 --> 01:03:54,720
go to over here you go over there and at

1732
01:03:58,789 --> 01:03:56,640
the end it all makes sense like i

1733
01:04:01,190 --> 01:03:58,799
studied music then i studied chemistry

1734
01:04:04,470 --> 01:04:01,200
then i'm in education but now it all

1735
01:04:08,069 --> 01:04:04,480
makes sense and rarely is it straight

1736
01:04:09,750 --> 01:04:08,079
and i think that is very um can depress

1737
01:04:12,789 --> 01:04:09,760
people thinking that it's a straight

1738
01:04:13,510 --> 01:04:12,799
path and that's not the reality bring

1739
01:04:18,069 --> 01:04:13,520
the

1740
01:04:19,750 --> 01:04:18,079
opportunities that you'll need for that

1741
01:04:21,589 --> 01:04:19,760
future you

1742
01:04:24,829 --> 01:04:21,599
and i know that we have a question from

1743
01:04:27,349 --> 01:04:24,839
uh our live stream audience so maria

1744
01:04:30,150 --> 01:04:27,359
please actually this is a question for

1745
01:04:34,630 --> 01:04:31,990
thank you

1746
01:04:36,309 --> 01:04:34,640
so i just wanted to

1747
01:04:38,230 --> 01:04:36,319
we're talking about getting kids

1748
01:04:39,750 --> 01:04:38,240
encouraged and motivating and

1749
01:04:42,230 --> 01:04:39,760
so on and so forth but i think it's also

1750
01:04:44,710 --> 01:04:42,240
very important for them to empower

1751
01:04:46,390 --> 01:04:44,720
themselves through research right uh you

1752
01:04:49,190 --> 01:04:46,400
find everything online

1753
01:04:51,750 --> 01:04:49,200
nasa we have unlimited resources online

1754
01:04:53,670 --> 01:04:51,760
um in terms of getting a career somebody

1755
01:04:54,549 --> 01:04:53,680
asked well how do you get them in the

1756
01:04:56,630 --> 01:04:54,559
door

1757
01:04:58,390 --> 01:04:56,640
first of all once they you know we have

1758
01:05:00,549 --> 01:04:58,400
to be very involved in the communities

1759
01:05:02,069 --> 01:05:00,559
and the colleges and universities we

1760
01:05:04,230 --> 01:05:02,079
have to be planting those seeds and

1761
01:05:05,589 --> 01:05:04,240
harvest so that we can then harvest them

1762
01:05:07,430 --> 01:05:05,599
right

1763
01:05:09,430 --> 01:05:07,440
the way to bring them into the workforce

1764
01:05:10,470 --> 01:05:09,440
is for them to become as competitive as

1765
01:05:12,549 --> 01:05:10,480
possible

1766
01:05:15,029 --> 01:05:12,559
so

1767
01:05:18,549 --> 01:05:15,039
just empower yourself through research

1768
01:05:20,710 --> 01:05:18,559
find out what it takes to obtain a job

1769
01:05:22,470 --> 01:05:20,720
learn about our different centers

1770
01:05:25,270 --> 01:05:22,480
the different opportunities we have we

1771
01:05:28,950 --> 01:05:25,280
have opportunities across the board from

1772
01:05:30,230 --> 01:05:28,960
administration to science engineering um

1773
01:05:33,430 --> 01:05:30,240
you know

1774
01:05:35,190 --> 01:05:33,440
from a through z we have careers so

1775
01:05:36,470 --> 01:05:35,200
yes you can be a scientist yes you can

1776
01:05:38,390 --> 01:05:36,480
be an engineer but you can also be an

1777
01:05:40,950 --> 01:05:38,400
accountant you can be

1778
01:05:42,630 --> 01:05:40,960
a procurement analyst you can be

1779
01:05:44,789 --> 01:05:42,640
so on and so forth you know what i mean

1780
01:05:47,990 --> 01:05:44,799
but i did want to ask a question going

1781
01:05:49,109 --> 01:05:48,000
into the career path my question is for

1782
01:05:50,549 --> 01:05:49,119
dr

1783
01:05:51,270 --> 01:05:50,559
uh marla

1784
01:05:53,349 --> 01:05:51,280
so

1785
01:05:55,270 --> 01:05:53,359
once you have those individuals in the

1786
01:05:56,950 --> 01:05:55,280
career pipeline

1787
01:05:58,710 --> 01:05:56,960
you as a

1788
01:06:00,950 --> 01:05:58,720
the deputy director of our glenn

1789
01:06:03,430 --> 01:06:00,960
research center what do you look for

1790
01:06:04,630 --> 01:06:03,440
when you're looking for talent for

1791
01:06:05,829 --> 01:06:04,640
workforce

1792
01:06:11,109 --> 01:06:05,839
how do you

1793
01:06:13,829 --> 01:06:11,119
grow your workforce

1794
01:06:16,230 --> 01:06:13,839
so um that's an excellent question you

1795
01:06:18,150 --> 01:06:16,240
know one thing is bring people right we

1796
01:06:20,549 --> 01:06:18,160
talk about that on top potential we

1797
01:06:22,870 --> 01:06:20,559
bring the potential here so now we have

1798
01:06:25,349 --> 01:06:22,880
a responsibility to make sure that we

1799
01:06:26,870 --> 01:06:25,359
provide that career growth so a couple

1800
01:06:28,630 --> 01:06:26,880
of things that we haven't talked about

1801
01:06:31,190 --> 01:06:28,640
diversity and inclusion we talk a lot

1802
01:06:32,390 --> 01:06:31,200
about diversity that's great but we also

1803
01:06:34,870 --> 01:06:32,400
have to take

1804
01:06:37,510 --> 01:06:34,880
steps toward inclusion and that's where

1805
01:06:40,069 --> 01:06:37,520
really you develop the people skills and

1806
01:06:43,349 --> 01:06:40,079
knowledge so there's two two ways to

1807
01:06:46,230 --> 01:06:43,359
treat again here one is the organization

1808
01:06:47,990 --> 01:06:46,240
has a responsibility to foster diversity

1809
01:06:51,349 --> 01:06:48,000
and inclusion and environment that

1810
01:06:53,430 --> 01:06:51,359
really promote and foster you got to

1811
01:06:56,230 --> 01:06:53,440
develop yourself and then there's the

1812
01:06:57,829 --> 01:06:56,240
individual responsibility sometimes you

1813
01:06:59,430 --> 01:06:57,839
know we get the same way like we're

1814
01:07:00,710 --> 01:06:59,440
going through high school it's like a

1815
01:07:03,029 --> 01:07:00,720
cycle

1816
01:07:04,789 --> 01:07:03,039
we get discouraged there's frustration

1817
01:07:06,789 --> 01:07:04,799
in the workplace it's not like you get

1818
01:07:08,630 --> 01:07:06,799
in the workplace and everything is great

1819
01:07:10,870 --> 01:07:08,640
there's going to be challenges so you

1820
01:07:13,029 --> 01:07:10,880
have to have to learn about those

1821
01:07:15,430 --> 01:07:13,039
challenges and trying to figure out

1822
01:07:18,230 --> 01:07:15,440
where's your path within your career

1823
01:07:21,109 --> 01:07:18,240
because not everybody wants to be you

1824
01:07:23,270 --> 01:07:21,119
know a phd scientist right some people

1825
01:07:24,069 --> 01:07:23,280
are okay they get their undergrad they

1826
01:07:26,069 --> 01:07:24,079
get

1827
01:07:27,109 --> 01:07:26,079
outstanding contributions to the nasa

1828
01:07:29,190 --> 01:07:27,119
mission

1829
01:07:31,829 --> 01:07:29,200
there's other individuals that have this

1830
01:07:33,990 --> 01:07:31,839
need to continue their development and i

1831
01:07:36,470 --> 01:07:34,000
really think that that is really very

1832
01:07:39,750 --> 01:07:36,480
critical having that

1833
01:07:42,309 --> 01:07:39,760
self-motivation self-awareness to grow

1834
01:07:45,510 --> 01:07:42,319
with your career because things change

1835
01:07:47,589 --> 01:07:45,520
you have to adapt and you have to

1836
01:07:48,630 --> 01:07:47,599
strive to be better than what you are

1837
01:07:50,390 --> 01:07:48,640
today

1838
01:07:51,750 --> 01:07:50,400
but there's also the organization

1839
01:07:55,029 --> 01:07:51,760
components

1840
01:07:57,670 --> 01:07:55,039
anyone that has a position also is in

1841
01:08:01,029 --> 01:07:57,680
the leadership position as a leader you

1842
01:08:03,430 --> 01:08:01,039
have to make sure that you recognize

1843
01:08:05,109 --> 01:08:03,440
that you also influence the environment

1844
01:08:06,950 --> 01:08:05,119
and you have to have an environment that

1845
01:08:08,789 --> 01:08:06,960
is inclusive you have to have an

1846
01:08:11,270 --> 01:08:08,799
environment that you

1847
01:08:13,029 --> 01:08:11,280
reward people for their development i

1848
01:08:15,510 --> 01:08:13,039
think that's how we make sure that we

1849
01:08:18,070 --> 01:08:15,520
continue the career development so it's

1850
01:08:19,189 --> 01:08:18,080
both ways individual and organization

1851
01:08:20,870 --> 01:08:19,199
thank you and i know that we have an

1852
01:08:22,630 --> 01:08:20,880
online question

1853
01:08:24,309 --> 01:08:22,640
yes good morning so we've had some

1854
01:08:25,590 --> 01:08:24,319
really good comments on there that we'll

1855
01:08:27,669 --> 01:08:25,600
happy to share with you but one

1856
01:08:30,789 --> 01:08:27,679
particular question is for the entire

1857
01:08:32,390 --> 01:08:30,799
panel but in particular for dr carolina

1858
01:08:34,390 --> 01:08:32,400
what would be your advice for young

1859
01:08:37,030 --> 01:08:34,400
people who find that they have family

1860
01:08:38,870 --> 01:08:37,040
pressure to stay near their other family

1861
01:08:40,950 --> 01:08:38,880
because as latinos and immigrants in

1862
01:08:42,390 --> 01:08:40,960
general we culturally experience

1863
01:08:44,870 --> 01:08:42,400
pressure to stay near our families

1864
01:08:47,590 --> 01:08:44,880
regardless of local opportunity and this

1865
01:08:49,430 --> 01:08:47,600
came in from doris online

1866
01:08:50,630 --> 01:08:49,440
thank you

1867
01:08:55,269 --> 01:08:50,640
that's

1868
01:08:59,030 --> 01:08:55,279
a very real and daily occurrence

1869
01:09:01,189 --> 01:08:59,040
at the campus that i work at and that at

1870
01:09:02,470 --> 01:09:01,199
actually all of the campuses that i've

1871
01:09:04,950 --> 01:09:02,480
been on

1872
01:09:13,030 --> 01:09:08,149
it is a big scary world and if you're

1873
01:09:14,470 --> 01:09:13,040
coming from a family or a community

1874
01:09:16,470 --> 01:09:14,480
where

1875
01:09:18,229 --> 01:09:16,480
resources are scarce

1876
01:09:19,590 --> 01:09:18,239
and i know that is the case with

1877
01:09:20,550 --> 01:09:19,600
everyone

1878
01:09:22,870 --> 01:09:20,560
here

1879
01:09:23,590 --> 01:09:22,880
speaking and hearing about your stories

1880
01:09:24,709 --> 01:09:23,600
but

1881
01:09:27,430 --> 01:09:24,719
from

1882
01:09:30,470 --> 01:09:27,440
a rural community when your presence is

1883
01:09:32,870 --> 01:09:30,480
needed nearby to assist the family or to

1884
01:09:34,390 --> 01:09:32,880
be part of that community while you're

1885
01:09:35,910 --> 01:09:34,400
going to school

1886
01:09:39,510 --> 01:09:35,920
there's a lot of pressure on these

1887
01:09:42,229 --> 01:09:39,520
students and the thought of leaving

1888
01:09:44,870 --> 01:09:42,239
the state to go

1889
01:09:47,030 --> 01:09:44,880
to an internship even to be gone for a

1890
01:09:50,789 --> 01:09:47,040
whole summer

1891
01:09:52,070 --> 01:09:50,799
that is a very big ordeal for the family

1892
01:09:56,790 --> 01:09:52,080
because

1893
01:09:59,750 --> 01:09:56,800
they may not have the funds to

1894
01:10:01,590 --> 01:09:59,760
purchase even clothing and

1895
01:10:03,910 --> 01:10:01,600
airline tickets so that you can

1896
01:10:06,470 --> 01:10:03,920
participate in the internship and so

1897
01:10:08,310 --> 01:10:06,480
oftentimes students are

1898
01:10:11,430 --> 01:10:08,320
discouraged

1899
01:10:13,270 --> 01:10:11,440
in uh taking advantage of opportunities

1900
01:10:14,830 --> 01:10:13,280
that would be game changers in their

1901
01:10:18,229 --> 01:10:14,840
life and in their

1902
01:10:20,470 --> 01:10:18,239
career and their families are afraid of

1903
01:10:23,430 --> 01:10:20,480
losing them their families are afraid of

1904
01:10:25,830 --> 01:10:23,440
what might happen to them out there

1905
01:10:28,630 --> 01:10:25,840
and that they would not be there to

1906
01:10:31,030 --> 01:10:28,640
support them so those are very real and

1907
01:10:34,229 --> 01:10:31,040
the way that that

1908
01:10:36,950 --> 01:10:34,239
those can be overcome is one by building

1909
01:10:39,510 --> 01:10:36,960
confidence with the families

1910
01:10:41,270 --> 01:10:39,520
so that means that here's a

1911
01:10:44,630 --> 01:10:41,280
college student

1912
01:10:46,950 --> 01:10:44,640
and it's 22 years old and wants to go on

1913
01:10:48,950 --> 01:10:46,960
an internship that might mean that i'm

1914
01:10:51,030 --> 01:10:48,960
talking to

1915
01:10:53,669 --> 01:10:51,040
the student's parents

1916
01:10:55,750 --> 01:10:53,679
that might mean that i'm talking to

1917
01:10:59,270 --> 01:10:55,760
family and trying to build their

1918
01:11:01,590 --> 01:10:59,280
confidence and coaching the student

1919
01:11:03,110 --> 01:11:01,600
on what they can tell their family and

1920
01:11:04,550 --> 01:11:03,120
how they can

1921
01:11:06,950 --> 01:11:04,560
come up with

1922
01:11:08,950 --> 01:11:06,960
making ends meet to be able to take

1923
01:11:10,790 --> 01:11:08,960
advantage of internships or going on to

1924
01:11:13,430 --> 01:11:10,800
graduate school

1925
01:11:15,350 --> 01:11:13,440
i was a director of iran d mcnair

1926
01:11:17,990 --> 01:11:15,360
program and one of the key components

1927
01:11:20,390 --> 01:11:18,000
with that program was to have the

1928
01:11:23,030 --> 01:11:20,400
students do undergraduate research

1929
01:11:24,310 --> 01:11:23,040
and then take their research and present

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01:11:26,390 --> 01:11:24,320
it

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out of state at a conference

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when i traveled with these students many

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of them had never been on an airplane

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they had never been in an airport

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that had a moving sidewalk oh my

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goodness

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so

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but yet they were

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very well educated students were

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brilliant

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01:11:48,470 --> 01:11:45,440
so it's those experiences that make a

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difference and all i can say to

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our

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you just have to build their confidence

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that it will be okay and

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the little things that seem like

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01:12:02,630 --> 01:12:00,719
barriers they're not that much

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we can find a way past that barrier

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01:12:04,950 --> 01:12:03,840
because guess what there'll be another

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one down the road and now you'll know

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01:12:10,070 --> 01:12:07,760
how to solve that one too

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well folks um unfortunately the time has

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come for us to really begin wrapping up

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this segment of the program so we wanted

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to number one thank our distinguished

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[Applause]

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their time and dedication um you all are

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amazing heroes and i applaud you for the

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work that you're doing and continue um

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and for the rest of us here um how can

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we really stem up right what what can we

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be doing to help each other out what can

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we doing to inspire each other and what

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can we be really doing to keep on

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dreaming right because dreams do come

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true

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um so thank you very much for everybody

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who participated

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and i will turn it now to barbara who

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will take us to the next segment

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hola i'm barbara trujillo i'm proud to

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be serving as the ola vice chair here at

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nasa headquarters

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can i just say wow wasn't that a great

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i just want to thank you for

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sharing your expertise your passion you

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01:13:17,510 --> 01:13:14,800
can feel the passion in answering your

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questions and talking about your stories

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and to support the latino stem up i know

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that i'm inspired by your

1981
01:13:26,229 --> 01:13:22,880
accomplishments i came from las cruces

1982
01:13:29,030 --> 01:13:26,239
new mexico and i made it to nasa too

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01:13:31,189 --> 01:13:29,040
let me just say that

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01:13:32,470 --> 01:13:31,199
and i think you're making a difference

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01:13:34,950 --> 01:13:32,480
for the future

1986
01:13:37,430 --> 01:13:34,960
you know for our country for the earth

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01:13:40,470 --> 01:13:37,440
for future scientists technologists

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01:13:42,390 --> 01:13:40,480
engineers and mathematicians so

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again please join me in another round of

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applause for these distinguished panel

1991
01:13:53,030 --> 01:13:51,350
i also like to acknowledge the support

1992
01:13:55,350 --> 01:13:53,040
from many others that helped us make

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01:13:57,669 --> 01:13:55,360
this event possible

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01:13:59,510 --> 01:13:57,679
our ola champion who couldn't be with us

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01:14:00,709 --> 01:13:59,520
today acting associate deputy

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administrator

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kristen paquin

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01:14:07,110 --> 01:14:05,520
our ola sponsor jay henn

1999
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the executive director for headquarters

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operation

2001
01:14:13,510 --> 01:14:11,760
crystal moton our director for equal

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01:14:15,350 --> 01:14:13,520
opportunity and diversity management

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01:14:17,110 --> 01:14:15,360
division and her staff

2004
01:14:18,550 --> 01:14:17,120
the media teams from headquarters and

2005
01:14:20,070 --> 01:14:18,560
from goddard the office of

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01:14:22,070 --> 01:14:20,080
communications

2007
01:14:25,030 --> 01:14:22,080
the graphics team and many other

2008
01:14:26,870 --> 01:14:25,040
volunteers that stepped up to help us

2009
01:14:28,470 --> 01:14:26,880
and i'd be remiss if i wouldn't thank

2010
01:14:30,870 --> 01:14:28,480
maria santos

2011
01:14:33,189 --> 01:14:30,880
our ola chair for her vision and

2012
01:14:35,830 --> 01:14:33,199
leadership and for all the other ola

2013
01:14:39,030 --> 01:14:35,840
members that were here to support us

2014
01:14:41,430 --> 01:14:39,040
so next i'd like to bring uh crystal

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01:14:43,030 --> 01:14:41,440
she is going to present to the moderator

2016
01:14:49,430 --> 01:14:43,040
and our panel members a token of our

2017
01:14:52,790 --> 01:14:51,189
good morning everyone again my name is

2018
01:14:54,630 --> 01:14:52,800
crystal milton and i'm the director of

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01:14:56,310 --> 01:14:54,640
the equal opportunity and diversity

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01:14:59,189 --> 01:14:56,320
management division here at nasa

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01:15:01,990 --> 01:14:59,199
headquarters and i just like to say

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01:15:02,950 --> 01:15:02,000
i was truly inspired today fantastic

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01:15:05,030 --> 01:15:02,960
panel

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01:15:07,830 --> 01:15:05,040
fantastic discussion

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01:15:11,189 --> 01:15:07,840
you all touched on so many areas that we

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01:15:14,390 --> 01:15:11,199
can all glean some knowledge and insight

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01:15:16,790 --> 01:15:14,400
inspiration to take us forward to engage

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01:15:18,070 --> 01:15:16,800
our young people so thank you very very

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01:15:20,390 --> 01:15:18,080
much for your presence we really

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01:15:23,669 --> 01:15:20,400
appreciate you today thank you so much

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01:15:27,990 --> 01:15:23,679
and so um i have the um pleasure of

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presenting a token of our appreciation

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01:15:31,030 --> 01:15:30,320
i'm going to read the um

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the

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exceptional contribution and

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01:15:51,750 --> 01:15:49,120
participation in the hispanic outreach

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and leadership alliance celebration of

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01:15:57,430 --> 01:15:54,000
hispanic heritage month at nasa

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01:16:00,870 --> 01:15:57,440
headquarters october 12 2017. it's

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signed by our executive director mr j m

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henn

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office of headquarters operations nasa

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so um and jay could not be here today um

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01:16:14,390 --> 01:16:12,239
again we appreciate you and we just want

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to give you a token of our appreciation

2046
01:16:20,470 --> 01:16:18,400
so you all re receive one of these

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01:16:30,870 --> 01:16:20,480
can everyone see

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01:16:35,990 --> 01:16:33,110
and we have carrying cases for these

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01:16:57,350 --> 01:16:36,000
fantastic phenomenal montages for you as

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01:16:57,360 --> 01:17:00,709
he said wow

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01:17:21,990 --> 01:17:02,229
they're pretty they're pretty impressive

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01:17:30,310 --> 01:17:25,130
thank you again

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okay next i'm honored to introduce our

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tori is an activity manager in the

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01:17:43,590 --> 01:17:41,040
office of education minority university

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01:17:45,910 --> 01:17:43,600
research and education project

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01:17:47,910 --> 01:17:45,920
he is coming to us from goddard space

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flight center

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01:17:59,270 --> 01:17:55,030
thank you

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01:18:01,189 --> 01:17:59,280
i appreciate the kind introduction

2061
01:18:04,149 --> 01:18:01,199
today i'll be bringing some remarks on

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01:18:05,750 --> 01:18:04,159
behalf of mr mike kinkade the acting

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associate administrator for the office

2064
01:18:10,709 --> 01:18:09,040
of education and ms joletta patrick the

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01:18:13,750 --> 01:18:10,719
director for minority university

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01:18:15,669 --> 01:18:13,760
research and education project

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i've really enjoyed

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this rich stem discussion today

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01:18:22,229 --> 01:18:20,000
during our hispanic heritage month

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01:18:24,550 --> 01:18:22,239
celebration here at nasa

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01:18:26,870 --> 01:18:24,560
as an organization we are excited that

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01:18:28,470 --> 01:18:26,880
stem is indeed far-reaching

2073
01:18:30,870 --> 01:18:28,480
and through the efforts of the office of

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01:18:33,110 --> 01:18:30,880
education we have been able to affect

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01:18:34,950 --> 01:18:33,120
positive results across the country

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01:18:36,310 --> 01:18:34,960
through our various initiatives i'm

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01:18:37,910 --> 01:18:36,320
going to spend a little time talking

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about a few of them but i won't belabor

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01:18:40,950 --> 01:18:39,520
your lunch

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01:18:43,270 --> 01:18:40,960
we'd like to share some exciting

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01:18:46,310 --> 01:18:43,280
information with respect to some of the

2082
01:18:48,229 --> 01:18:46,320
current office of education efforts

2083
01:18:50,790 --> 01:18:48,239
the first is regarding our nasa

2084
01:18:52,550 --> 01:18:50,800
internships fellowships and scholarships

2085
01:18:54,709 --> 01:18:52,560
or nifs

2086
01:18:57,430 --> 01:18:54,719
nasa internships are available for

2087
01:18:58,950 --> 01:18:57,440
educators high school undergraduate and

2088
01:19:02,070 --> 01:18:58,960
graduate students

2089
01:19:04,550 --> 01:19:02,080
and support educational opportunities

2090
01:19:08,229 --> 01:19:04,560
that provide unique nasa-related

2091
01:19:11,110 --> 01:19:08,239
research and operational experiences

2092
01:19:13,350 --> 01:19:11,120
nasa fellowships are competitive awards

2093
01:19:15,830 --> 01:19:13,360
to support independently conceived or

2094
01:19:18,310 --> 01:19:15,840
disease design research

2095
01:19:20,709 --> 01:19:18,320
or senior design projects by highly

2096
01:19:22,950 --> 01:19:20,719
qualified faculty undergraduate and

2097
01:19:25,669 --> 01:19:22,960
graduate students and disciplines needed

2098
01:19:27,189 --> 01:19:25,679
to advance nasa's missions

2099
01:19:29,830 --> 01:19:27,199
we also have scholarships that are

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01:19:32,630 --> 01:19:29,840
designed to provide financial assistance

2101
01:19:36,550 --> 01:19:32,640
as well as internship opportunities

2102
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intern applications for the spring

2103
01:19:44,709 --> 01:19:41,840
session for 2018 are due next week and

2104
01:19:46,630 --> 01:19:44,719
the open session for summer 2018 begins

2105
01:19:48,470 --> 01:19:46,640
on the 18th of october

2106
01:19:50,310 --> 01:19:48,480
so please share these opportunities with

2107
01:19:53,270 --> 01:19:50,320
your friends and family and apply again

2108
01:19:55,189 --> 01:19:53,280
at intern.nasa.gov

2109
01:19:57,830 --> 01:19:55,199
a second critical component of the

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01:19:59,910 --> 01:19:57,840
office of education is the minority

2111
01:20:02,550 --> 01:19:59,920
university research and education

2112
01:20:04,229 --> 01:20:02,560
project or mirop

2113
01:20:06,229 --> 01:20:04,239
through mir mirap activities nasa

2114
01:20:08,310 --> 01:20:06,239
supports historically black colleges and

2115
01:20:09,669 --> 01:20:08,320
universities hispanic serving

2116
01:20:11,669 --> 01:20:09,679
institutions

2117
01:20:14,470 --> 01:20:11,679
asian-american and native american

2118
01:20:16,790 --> 01:20:14,480
pacific islanders serving institutions

2119
01:20:18,709 --> 01:20:16,800
tribal colleges and universities and

2120
01:20:21,750 --> 01:20:18,719
other minority serving institutions

2121
01:20:23,910 --> 01:20:21,760
through multi-year research grants

2122
01:20:26,310 --> 01:20:23,920
additionally mira provides internships

2123
01:20:28,149 --> 01:20:26,320
scholarships fellowships mentoring as

2124
01:20:29,830 --> 01:20:28,159
you all discussed on the panel

2125
01:20:31,510 --> 01:20:29,840
and tutoring for

2126
01:20:32,790 --> 01:20:31,520
underserved and underrepresented

2127
01:20:35,910 --> 01:20:32,800
learners

2128
01:20:37,669 --> 01:20:35,920
in k-12 in formal and higher education

2129
01:20:41,030 --> 01:20:37,679
settings

2130
01:20:43,270 --> 01:20:41,040
hispanic-serving institutions or hsis

2131
01:20:45,669 --> 01:20:43,280
of which they're about 350 or more in

2132
01:20:48,709 --> 01:20:45,679
total account for approximately 42

2133
01:20:51,990 --> 01:20:48,719
percent of all msis in the country

2134
01:20:54,790 --> 01:20:52,000
in 2016 nasa spent over 59 million

2135
01:20:56,790 --> 01:20:54,800
dollars across these institutions

2136
01:20:59,030 --> 01:20:56,800
merip also provides support and

2137
01:21:00,790 --> 01:20:59,040
sponsorship for conferences that promote

2138
01:21:03,189 --> 01:21:00,800
stem awareness

2139
01:21:05,590 --> 01:21:03,199
across multiple demographic groups such

2140
01:21:08,390 --> 01:21:05,600
as great minds in stem the society of

2141
01:21:10,870 --> 01:21:08,400
hispanic professional engineers women of

2142
01:21:12,229 --> 01:21:10,880
color in stem and the society for

2143
01:21:13,990 --> 01:21:12,239
advancement

2144
01:21:16,629 --> 01:21:14,000
of chicanos and hispanics and native

2145
01:21:19,350 --> 01:21:16,639
americans in science

2146
01:21:21,990 --> 01:21:19,360
an example of a dynamic nasa activity

2147
01:21:24,149 --> 01:21:22,000
intersecting with the largest r1

2148
01:21:26,870 --> 01:21:24,159
institution serving a predominantly

2149
01:21:29,590 --> 01:21:26,880
hispanic student population can be found

2150
01:21:31,669 --> 01:21:29,600
in the university of texas el paso

2151
01:21:35,270 --> 01:21:31,679
and europe institutional research

2152
01:21:38,470 --> 01:21:35,280
opportunity center for space exploration

2153
01:21:40,149 --> 01:21:38,480
and technology research say that again a

2154
01:21:42,629 --> 01:21:40,159
couple of times fast

2155
01:21:45,110 --> 01:21:42,639
uh sorry for the acronyms

2156
01:21:47,110 --> 01:21:45,120
but this group out of uh utep that's

2157
01:21:49,750 --> 01:21:47,120
working with our mirror program

2158
01:21:52,790 --> 01:21:49,760
continued its mission of creating an

2159
01:21:55,430 --> 01:21:52,800
aerospace and energy research facility

2160
01:21:57,189 --> 01:21:55,440
within a 21st century demographic

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01:21:59,510 --> 01:21:57,199
institution

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01:22:02,310 --> 01:21:59,520
and lastly i want to share a little bit

2163
01:22:05,510 --> 01:22:02,320
about a really special activity a year

2164
01:22:07,669 --> 01:22:05,520
of education on station

2165
01:22:11,110 --> 01:22:07,679
this year crews aboard the international

2166
01:22:13,830 --> 01:22:11,120
space station or iss will inspire more

2167
01:22:16,310 --> 01:22:13,840
students and teachers than ever before

2168
01:22:18,629 --> 01:22:16,320
the year of education on station

2169
01:22:21,189 --> 01:22:18,639
takes advantage of the unique capability

2170
01:22:22,870 --> 01:22:21,199
of the space station to stimulate the

2171
01:22:25,750 --> 01:22:22,880
interest of students from

2172
01:22:27,910 --> 01:22:25,760
kindergarteners to post graduates alike

2173
01:22:30,790 --> 01:22:27,920
as a dream realized through innovation

2174
01:22:33,189 --> 01:22:30,800
hard work and perseverance and dedicated

2175
01:22:35,189 --> 01:22:33,199
to the pursuit of knowledge the station

2176
01:22:37,030 --> 01:22:35,199
is a literal beacon for the entire

2177
01:22:39,830 --> 01:22:37,040
education community

2178
01:22:41,990 --> 01:22:39,840
of what can be achieved through learning

2179
01:22:43,990 --> 01:22:42,000
among crew members aboard the station

2180
01:22:45,189 --> 01:22:44,000
this year are two u.s astronauts who

2181
01:22:48,310 --> 01:22:45,199
were teachers

2182
01:22:50,629 --> 01:22:48,320
joe acaba and ricky arnold and you will

2183
01:22:52,390 --> 01:22:50,639
actually see and hear from joe shortly

2184
01:22:53,830 --> 01:22:52,400
via a message from the international

2185
01:22:56,070 --> 01:22:53,840
space station

2186
01:22:58,390 --> 01:22:56,080
these two former teachers will bring

2187
01:23:00,390 --> 01:22:58,400
their experience in the classroom and

2188
01:23:02,629 --> 01:23:00,400
passion for teaching

2189
01:23:05,189 --> 01:23:02,639
during the year of education

2190
01:23:07,110 --> 01:23:05,199
year of education activities include

2191
01:23:09,350 --> 01:23:07,120
opportunities for hundreds of students

2192
01:23:11,350 --> 01:23:09,360
and educators across the nation

2193
01:23:12,629 --> 01:23:11,360
to speak directly with astronauts in

2194
01:23:14,629 --> 01:23:12,639
space

2195
01:23:17,110 --> 01:23:14,639
thousands more will participate through

2196
01:23:19,030 --> 01:23:17,120
nasa partnerships with companies

2197
01:23:21,350 --> 01:23:19,040
learning centers

2198
01:23:23,590 --> 01:23:21,360
associations universities media

2199
01:23:24,950 --> 01:23:23,600
organizations and institutions a whole

2200
01:23:27,189 --> 01:23:24,960
lot of folks

2201
01:23:29,189 --> 01:23:27,199
and new educational demonstrations

2202
01:23:31,830 --> 01:23:29,199
filmed in orbit and linked to life in

2203
01:23:33,750 --> 01:23:31,840
space and human exploration

2204
01:23:36,229 --> 01:23:33,760
will be unveiled and available to

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01:23:38,310 --> 01:23:36,239
hopefully millions throughout the year

2206
01:23:40,870 --> 01:23:38,320
the ultimate objective is to inspire

2207
01:23:42,709 --> 01:23:40,880
students in fields related to stem

2208
01:23:44,950 --> 01:23:42,719
to help teachers stimulate the interest

2209
01:23:46,470 --> 01:23:44,960
of their classes in these subjects and

2210
01:23:49,030 --> 01:23:46,480
ultimately through their students

2211
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pursuit of dreams to advance american

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achievement in discovery

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invention and exploration

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you can find out how you can be a part

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of all of this and share nasa's year of

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education on station by visiting

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nasa.gov backslash education backslash

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onstation

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now as promised we now have some words

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directly from joe acaba from the

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international space station honoring

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hispanic hispanic heritage month thank

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hi everyone i'm nasa astronaut joe acaba

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currently living and working aboard the

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international space station

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i want to take a moment to honor

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national hispanic heritage month i am

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proud of my puerto rican heritage and

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grateful for the opportunity to

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represent the hispanic culture both on

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earth and now in space

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i want to pay tribute to the generations

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of hispanic americans who have reached

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for the stars and made accomplishments

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in many different fields including the

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sciences and aerospace i also want to

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recognize all the amazing and diverse

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members of the hispanic community at

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nasa and elsewhere who have made it

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possible for me to fly in space and

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conduct experiments that could lead to

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innovations and breakthroughs that

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benefit everyone

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diversity is essential to our success

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and i encourage all of you to use this

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hispanic heritage month to learn a

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little more about the accomplishments

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and contributions hispanics have made to

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your careers field specifically and more

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broadly to improve the lives of every

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[Applause]

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i just wanted to say again thank you so

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much for spending your morning with us

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uh our current um acting administrator

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unfortunately could not be here with us

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today but he did want to say a few

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remarks so that being said uh please

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welcome uh

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by video our uh acting nasa

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hello everyone i'm robert lightfoot

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nasa's acting administrator

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i'm sorry i was not able to attend this

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event in person but i wanted to take a

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moment to say thank you for attending

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our 2017 hispanic heritage month event

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latino stem up

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at nasa we welcome and celebrate

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diversity it's essential to mission

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success

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hispanics have been and will continue to

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be an integral part of our workforce

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across every nasa center the hispanic

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community is the fastest growing

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population in our diverse nation

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comprising almost 18 percent of our

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population and growing

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their engagement and contributions are

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essential to nasa continuing to inspire

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explore our solar system and look beyond

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it and achieve amazing things on behalf

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of the american people and the world

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today you heard from a stellar lineup of

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talent from across our agency and the

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nation about the importance of hispanic

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representation in stem education and

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stem careers

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here at nasa stem is what we do

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we hope to continue not only inspire

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future scientists and engineers but also

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to train and develop the future leaders

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and decision makers of this great agency

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i encourage students to continue to

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dream big and to one day join us on our

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mission of exploration

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and because we want to continue being a

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leading and cutting edge organization as

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leaders we must prepare both our current

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and future diverse workforce for the

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jobs of

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tomorrow i look forward to us continuing

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this dialogue and working together to

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ensure we're breaking down barriers and

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reaching for new heights

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i want to give a big thank you to the

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hispanic outreach and leadership

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alliance also known as ola at nasa

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headquarters for planning and hosting

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today's program

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also the equal opportunity and diversity

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management division and jay hen the

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executive director for headquarters

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operations and of course ola's champion

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nasa's acting deputy administrator

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christa paquin the ola leadership team

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is an example of how nasa employees go

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above and beyond to help us meet our

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missions and goals

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they're all volunteers because they

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believe in the importance of diversity

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and inclusion

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i thank ola and the other employee

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research groups across our entire agency

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who work tirelessly to plan events and

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special programs and serve as advisors

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to senior leaders like me

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their efforts directly contribute to