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My High School Internship At NASA

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My High School Internship at NASA

During the fall semester of my junior year, my Aerospace Engineering teacher had a sign outside of his door about a program at NASA for high school juniors. Since I was interested in engineering, specifically Aerospace and NASA I decided to apply. So that night at the end of September I came home and filled out the application and wrote the essay and letters to my state representatives. I had told my parents at that point and they were excited and of course hoped I made it. I thought, “There are thousands applying and I won’t make it.”. Little did I know how wrong that thought was. When I received an email from NASA it stated Congratulations and that was when I was like: “WOW!”. I was shocked to say the least, but proud that I had made it into this prestigious program at NASA, that has now changed my life. The first thing that the administrators told us was that there was an online portion that would last through February and would add upwards of 5 or so hours a week to our course load from school, as well as that we would design a mission to Mars. So me being involved in 3 AP classes, 2 Pre-AP classes, and 2 different clubs one of which I was president, I was nervous as to how I would handle that load. So that first week in November I started my online portion of my NASA internship, I learned so much that week through reading articles about new science technologies and watching videos. The program followed the outline of four modules;

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