{"id":769063,"date":"2023-10-12T16:28:01","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T20:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=769063"},"modified":"2023-10-12T16:28:01","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T20:28:01","slug":"iss-research-communications-lead-jennifer-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=769063","title":{"rendered":"ISS Research Communications Lead Jennifer Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\">\n<div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\">\n<figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-fit \"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1494\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/jsc2023e040107.jpg\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"Portrait of Jennifer Hamilton for Faces of NASA Project.\" loading=\"eager\" style=\"object-position: 51% 48%;object-fit: cover\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\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.<\/p>\n<p>\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 \u2014\u00a0which is obviously not great for underwater robotics that are meant for deep sea missions \u2014\u00a0we sort of lucked our way into the international competition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven so, we ended up winning a \u2018bang for your buck\u2019 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<p>\u2014 Jennifer Hamilton, Communications Lead, ISS Research Integration Office, NASA\u2019s Johnson Space Center<\/p>\n<p><em>Image Credit: NASA \/\u00a0James Blair<br \/>Interviewer: NASA \/ Thalia Patrinos<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/gallery\/faces-of-nasa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Check out some of our other Faces of NASA.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/image-article\/iss-research-communications-lead-jennifer-hamilton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ISS Research Communications Lead Jennifer Hamilton<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NASA Breaking News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\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&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-769063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-NASA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=769063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=769063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=769063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=769063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}