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NARRATOR>> How can we provide STEM opportunities for traditionally underrepresented groups?

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Here at Goddard, Internal Research and Development is funding a

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program for high school students to come do innovative research with

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NASA heliophysics scientists. MIN>> Our school has a special program

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called Science and Technology, and an option is you can

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have an internship at a research institute, and I chose

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to do NASA. CHRISTIAN>> At my school we have a corporate work-study program, so everybody

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goes to work one day a week. Last year, the junior year, when we started covering

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stuff about the Sun, after school my teacher kinda told me more about it, and it

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kinda set me up for that position. NARRATOR>> The Heliophysics Work-Study

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and Academic Year Internship Program compares the effectiveness of

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Don Bosco Cristo Rey High School's work-study program and Eleanor

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Roosevelt High School's STEM Academic Year Research Experience Program.

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In both cases, the students get to have exciting new learning

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experiences. GEORGIA>> My students that I'm mentoring have been focusing on

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using images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory

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to identify jets, and we're trying to understand

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together how these particles are escaping the Sun. They're looking at these images,

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they have to decipher between various phenomena on

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the SUn, and really identify specific jets that are associated

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with events that we see in space at the same time.

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MIN>> I realized that working at NASA was not all about lab coats and beakers.

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Now I know how to do statistical analysis on my data. I can

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now actually write a research paper. CHRISTIAN>> I think aerospace engineering

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is what I'll most likely do in college, either that or physics. I'm really hoping to go to

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St. Louis University next near. I think this program was a huge help

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in getting into these programs, because my GPA I wouldn't say is the greatest. Coming to

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these colleges with a background of research is a huge help.

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GEORGIA>> The value of working with students like this is really two-fold.

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One, I benefit from the enthusiasm they bring, and also just

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a new perspective that they bring as well. Also, they

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are getting some of the work done, which is fabulous. NARRATOR>> Benefits

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for the mentors, benefits for the students - the Heliophysics Work-Study

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and Academic Year Internship Program is opening doors for

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underserved demographics of students and is great for everyone involved.

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