Shae Smith fell in love with programming in high school then went on to major in it in college, where she also played lacrosse. For the first few years of her career, she worked at for-profit and non-profit jobs, working to figure out how she wanted to fit into the programming world...
Read MoreFood for thought for the new school year...
If you're starting a new school year, or any new activity, you're probably going to be facing some new challenges. How can you successfully attain new skills or improve in school, in sports, or in extracurriculars? Angela Duckworth has some ideas about what's going to help you succeed...
Read MoreTeaching on-set with Maree Martinez
We’re continuing our back-to-school series today with a very unusual kind of teacher. Maree doesn’t teach in a regular classroom, she teaches on film and TV sets in Toronto, Canada! Her students can be anywhere from six to seventeen, and she can see them for a day or two or several months, or for part of the year over several years.
Read MoreSeeing a rocket launch!
Danielle and I met in March at a NASA Social. NASA Social is a program where regular people are invited to come to a NASA location- for ours, the Kennedy Space Center- to learn about some of NASA's work, and if you're lucky, see a launch. We got to see the Orbital ATK OA-6 cargo resupply mission take off for the International Space Station...
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