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Boys Night In, 2019

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NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

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Scolese: Today we are having a boys night in
where we've invited a number of students

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from various schools in the Maryland and
Virginia area to come in spend a night

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about science technology engineering and math.

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Gregory: This evening I've come in to meet some very enthusiastic young men, who are
interested in STEM,  which is what I'm interested in.

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Turner: What we'd like to do is
share our love and passion for what we

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do here at NASA, with these students
whether they come and work for us work

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for industry or work in the private
sector somewhere else. We want them to

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find that passion we want them to enjoy
what we've enjoyed over the years here at NASA.

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So there's students from three
school districts here in Maryland and

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one from Virginia.

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Agugua: We came I saw the
different like sections of engineering

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from building telescopes, to weathering,
we used a VR system

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I saw how space communications works. It
was just a very fun day.

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Ogle: And what I liked about the day is we actually got to meet the people who do stuff here and they

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were hopeful enough to actually lead us
through the stuff that they do and like

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give us opportunities to look into their
daily lives and what the work they do here is.

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Leschinger: Later we got to watch the
interview from the astronaut which was really interesting.

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Gregory: If you go back and
you look at any of us when we were kids

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we were excited by things that were
risky and scary and and very few had

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done before, but what it does then is, is
get you ready for the next journey and

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that's what we're hoping to excite these
young men this evening to get on that

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journey and do things that no one's done
before.

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Turner: Sometimes students confuse hard

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and impossible. What we want to do is
show those are not the same things, just

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because it's hard doesn't mean we can't
do it. And I found that when you excite

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somebody's passion almost everything
gets a little easier and that's what they excel at.

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Eeesmercado: They gave us a problem we
have to build a robot, it has to

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travel at least one meter.

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Agugua: Basically we
have a space crew and we have to protect

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them from the radiation, which is shown
by a UV light, and we also have to make

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the shuttle move a whole meter off of a
ramp. So it's not easy but we can do it.

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Turner: So the benefit for me is to have those
students be my next pool of really smart

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and amazing people. So I want to bring
them many of them in as I can and do the

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amazing things we do here at NASA.

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Agugua: I want to become a mechanical engineer once

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I graduate high school, so I communicated
with a lot of other engineers, also

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talked to people who worked at NASA
about internships, which can also make my

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resume look better from when I graduate
college. So today was all in all a great experience for me.

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Eeesmercado: My love for
engineering has increased from before,

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and I think this is just a great program
for all students.

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Leschinger: I didn't realize how many different parts go into NASA just besides the engineering, I can really see

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how like the business side of it, the
research, the outsourcing there's so many

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different components that come in
together when making an entire team

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which is really interesting.

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Ogle: Well what
struck me is like the stuff that

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they were doing here at NASA is actually
really involved, and it's like it's not

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just science and technology, it's stuff
you can apply to every aspect of like any career you do.

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Scolese: For Goddard it helps us
to see the excitement and the enthusiasm

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of the newer generations next
generations of scientists and explorers,

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and hopefully to inspire them so they
will come here, and if they don't come

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here they'll go into other areas and
make our nation in our world a better place.

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