{"id":767426,"date":"2023-10-02T14:22:53","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T18:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=767426"},"modified":"2023-10-02T14:22:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T18:22:53","slug":"jennifer-l-turner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=767426","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer L. Turner"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Environmental Portrait of Jennifer L. Turner for Faces of NASA Project. <\/div>\n
NASA \/ James Blair<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cI can almost directly trace my entire career back to [my extracurriculars] in high school and a mentor I had. My first foray into engineering was this high school program called the Robotics Science Academy. It was basically my high school\u2019s attempt to put together a curriculum that was designed specifically to prepare students for an engineering track in college. But since it was the first year of trying this program, there were only about eight of us. The high school teacher leading the robotics track, Mr. Donelson, was always [encouraging] about trying new things and getting out of our comfort zone. And I think that always really helped me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I owe a lot to him, for sure. He would stay after school with us and walk us through our assignments, and ended up encouraging us to enter an underwater robotics competition. Because we were fairly landlocked \u2013 which is obviously not great for underwater robotics that are meant for deep sea missions \u2014 we sort of lucked our way into the international competition.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEven so, we ended up winning a \u201cbang for your buck\u201d award based on the amount of tasks we completed in the mission and the cost of our robot, because the cost was very, very low. It was just this Frankenstein monstrosity of PVC pipes and messy high schooler soldering and wiring. But no matter how it looked, I was lucky to have teachers like Mr. Donelson to push all of us forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

Image Credit: NASA \/ James Blair<\/em><\/p>\n

Check out some of our other Faces of NASA.<\/a><\/p>\n


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\nSource: NASA Breaking News <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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