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[dreamy music] When I was

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seven, I desperately wanted to go to space camp.

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So this is like every little kid's dream, to work here.

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The live view of the International Space Station down the hall everyday

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is, it's pretty cool. [music transitions]

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My name is Sarah Roth. I am a student at the University of Akron,

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and I am studying chemical engineering. This summer I'm working on designing

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an experiment to gather data on propellant slosh.

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Propellant slosh is, okay if you have a glass of wine, and you're walking with it,

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and the liquid is moving back and forth inside the wine glass, that's sloshing.

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So propellant slosh is the way it moves inside the tank.

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My typical day involves organizing this and organizing that,

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putting it all together into a document so that somebody can easily read and say,

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"Yes, this is an experiment we want to do." I took a really varied path

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to get to engineering. Like most kids in high school, I had no idea what I wanted to

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do. I ended up getting a full ride to study music. I was like "Oh this is cool." I taught

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music for a while. And then after, you know, struggling through the economy in

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2008. I joined the Navy. And they were like. "Hey.

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you're really smart. You should become a nuclear engineer." And I was like, "Okay!"

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And they sent me to school, and I learned some great stuff, and then

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after I got injured and discharged, I was like "Okay, no I really like this, I like

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engineering, I like the math. I like working on something that's meaningful."

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And,

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this place is pretty meaningful.

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