WEBVTT - This file was automatically generated by VIMEO

0
00:00:00.225 --> 00:00:02.205
So me and a group of students at Dominican,

1
00:00:02.265 --> 00:00:04.245
we worked on a scientific instrument proposal

2
00:00:04.665 --> 00:00:06.485
for a NASA research competition.

3
00:00:07.425 --> 00:00:10.045
We created a prototype that was meant

4
00:00:10.045 --> 00:00:12.125
to be used on the Artemis mission to the moon.

5
00:00:12.505 --> 00:00:13.805
Our idea was that we want

6
00:00:13.805 --> 00:00:15.405
to help facilitate navigation on the moon.

7
00:00:16.025 --> 00:00:19.045
And our project was you would have this little capsule

8
00:00:19.075 --> 00:00:21.485
that you would, the astronauts would carry on the shuttle.

9
00:00:21.835 --> 00:00:23.725
They would carry about eight 10 of them

10
00:00:24.145 --> 00:00:25.445
and once they arrived to the moon,

11
00:00:25.445 --> 00:00:26.765
they would place 'em throughout their base

12
00:00:27.345 --> 00:00:29.925
and the thing would collect data using the slider sensor,

13
00:00:29.925 --> 00:00:32.285
which is a little laser that shoots out lasers

14
00:00:32.285 --> 00:00:33.725
and based on how long it takes to come back,

15
00:00:33.745 --> 00:00:35.245
you can measure how far that thing is.

16
00:00:35.905 --> 00:00:38.925
And so we made that proposal to NASA in November

17
00:00:39.385 --> 00:00:41.605
and by December we heard back that they liked it,

18
00:00:41.605 --> 00:00:43.165
they were gonna fund it, and

19
00:00:43.165 --> 00:00:44.405
everything kind of began from there.

20
00:00:45.405 --> 00:00:47.605
Everyone learned so much. I'm gonna be working at the NASA

21
00:00:47.665 --> 00:00:49.125
Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the summer.

22
00:00:49.665 --> 00:00:51.685
Two of other other students are working at the Marshall

23
00:00:51.685 --> 00:00:53.445
Space Flight Center in NASA and Alabama.

24
00:00:54.285 --> 00:00:56.165
A few other students, they got internships as well.

25
00:00:56.585 --> 00:00:59.165
So all of this really set them up with

26
00:00:59.165 --> 00:01:01.165
what research is really like in the real world

27
00:01:01.415 --> 00:01:02.415
There. There was a lot

28
00:01:02.415 --> 00:01:04.485
of research involved in getting everything

29
00:01:04.485 --> 00:01:06.245
working and getting to everything functioning.

30
00:01:06.705 --> 00:01:10.165
And it's actually helped me get a job currently at Argonne

31
00:01:10.325 --> 00:01:13.125
National Labs and it's ignited a bit of a passion

32
00:01:13.125 --> 00:01:15.645
for electronics as there was a lot of components

33
00:01:15.645 --> 00:01:17.285
that we were just unfamiliar with.

34
00:01:17.905 --> 00:01:19.725
And so now I've taken time

35
00:01:19.745 --> 00:01:22.205
to look into electronics myself and moding them.

36
00:01:22.875 --> 00:01:24.885
Like all the things that you're learning in class, seeing

37
00:01:24.985 --> 00:01:28.605
how it's applied and how you can use it, I think is like one

38
00:01:28.605 --> 00:01:29.805
of the most important things.

39
00:01:30.725 --> 00:01:34.205
I believe it did help me land my, my NASA internship.

40
00:01:34.635 --> 00:01:37.285
I'll be going to NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

41
00:01:37.705 --> 00:01:39.445
as a computer engineering intern.

42
00:01:39.865 --> 00:01:43.485
Paving the way for more Latinos to go into STEM is something

43
00:01:43.485 --> 00:01:45.045
that I really am focused on,

44
00:01:45.745 --> 00:01:47.685
and I hope that I can inspire people like that.

45
00:01:48.425 --> 00:01:50.085
That's one of the reasons why I love math,

46
00:01:50.125 --> 00:01:51.165
I love computer science

47
00:01:51.345 --> 00:01:53.965
and engineering, is that the things that you get to do

48
00:01:54.505 --> 00:01:56.045
are something you don't get, uh, things

49
00:01:56.045 --> 00:01:57.165
that you don't get to do every day.

50
00:01:57.465 --> 00:02:00.005
And being able to do it every day is kind

51
00:02:00.005 --> 00:02:01.645
of like working at your dream, dream job,

52
00:02:01.745 --> 00:02:04.205
or achieving your dream every day, day by day.