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NASA's Wallops Flight Facility

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Audrey:  I think the students are here really to
know what it's like to build

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a sounding rocket payload.

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Chris: Really what NASA does
best is you know, not only inspiring but

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connecting people with space.

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RockOn

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Chris: So RockOn is just one of those steps
that create those openings for students

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around the country to have some
real-world hands-on experience with a

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connection to an actual space flight.

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Audrey: I think one of the most rewarding things

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for me is seeing the transformation of
the students throughout the workshop. By

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the time it's Monday or Tuesday and
we're getting ready for integration,

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they're high five and the helpers
helpers all know them by name and it's

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just great seeing this transformation of
someone who's so closed off someone who's

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completely broken out of their shell.

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Chris: When I interact with students, I want them to feel comfortable,

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I want them to
have fun, because I feel like that's when

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they're gonna learn their most. It's not
uncommon for me when I'm working with

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students to be in costume, today even I'm
Captain Picard from the Starship

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Enterprise. I try to break down walls when
I'm working with students and faculty;

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but suddenly the focus is on the "crazy"
guy and not "do I belong here?" So, they're

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most comfortable, ready to have fun but
also ready to learn.

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Audrey: We have students end up soldering on to,
on resistors and capacitors and LEDs and

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a bunch of other connectors and they,
build all that up, we run them through

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code. Monday, we finish up the coding and
then we put everything on the plate, do a

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final check-in and we integrate to the
canisters and it's just a whirlwind of a day.

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There are students here who aren't
engineering students, or you know are

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just majoring in physics or chemistry,
and we had a couple humanities people

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here and in the end, they came out with a
rocket payload. So, it doesn't really

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matter where you're from, what your
background, is you can do it.

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Jasmine: It's just a really unique experience, I think.
Everyone should do it even if they're

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not interested in engineering
or anything space-related. It's just cool!

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Javel: I haven't been to launch before, but I have a 
feeling that it's going to be kind of

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surreal. I've seen on TV, so seeing it
in person is actually a blessing.

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Jasmine: I'm expecting it to be loud, I'm expecting it
to be big, and I'm expecting it to be fun.

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Asma: Oh so excited, like every time I think
about it my heart starts racing, and I'm

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like okay yes, I'm waiting for that day!

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Chris: Launch is definitely the highlight, to

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see that thing ignite. So everyone still
counts ten nine eight...

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seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, zero.

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Chris: It's hard to take your eyes off the
flame, but if you do just for that moment,

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you see life happening all around you.
Their brains are recording this for the

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rest of their lives. Their experiencing
something that they've worked hard for,

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and to me that's almost as exciting as
watching the launch.

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Javel: I also feel as if you can learn this stuff here, you're
ready to take the next steps towards

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what you want to do in the future.

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Audrey: I think just having you know a student who's

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clearly been affected by RockOn in this
way in terms of their personality in

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terms of their confidence level, kind of
speaks to the success of the program. It

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doesn't really matter if your experiment
comes back and it didn't work, we like to

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make sure that people are comfortable
here and I think that we do a good job

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doing that, and everyone leaves here
pretty satisfied with the program.

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So I can say whenever I want? Okay, Rock
on!

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Rock On! Rock On! Rock On! Rock On!

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Explore, NASA

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