When I first visited the Boeing factory as a little girl, I became really interested in learning how to use innovative technologies to solve practical problems. My passion sparked early on, but it wasn’t until I went to college, and had my first internship, that I realized this was the path I wanted to go forward with. I had the opportunity to work on a satellite at NASA that would be sent to the International Space Station and the novelty of the project captivated me. It’s one thing to learn about the concepts in classes, but actually using those design skills in practice made it so much better!