WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.130 --> 00:00:05.170 Hi, I'm Jessi Horelica, and I'm a NASA engineer. 2 00:00:05.410 --> 00:00:08.880 Today I've come back to the place where I was inspired to become an engineer 3 00:00:08.910 --> 00:00:12.750 to see if I can get students excited about maybe becoming an engineer, too. 4 00:00:12.810 --> 00:00:15.310 What do you think an engineer does? 5 00:00:15.310 --> 00:00:20.050 Well, really create stuff I guess. 6 00:00:20.050 --> 00:00:23.260 Works on building. 7 00:00:23.820 --> 00:00:28.560 I think is just mostly about math and a lot of building around it all. 8 00:00:28.590 --> 00:00:30.960 So what do you think an engineer does all day? 9 00:00:31.630 --> 00:00:33.970 I think they build all day. 10 00:00:34.700 --> 00:00:37.370 Yep, they build all day. They design things. 11 00:00:37.470 --> 00:00:42.240 So I like to think of an engineer as someone who solves puzzles for a living. 12 00:00:42.240 --> 00:00:44.310 Would that be so cool? Yeah. 13 00:00:44.610 --> 00:00:49.080 They have to program things that along with coding. 14 00:00:49.080 --> 00:00:51.580 Is there something that you might want to do when you grow up. 15 00:00:51.750 --> 00:00:54.050 To be like a vet. 16 00:00:54.050 --> 00:00:55.450 Or an engineer? 17 00:00:55.450 --> 00:00:59.160 Do you think that would be really cool building stuff for a living? 18 00:00:59.160 --> 00:00:59.560 Yeah. 19 00:00:59.560 --> 00:01:04.200 So I like to think of engineers as building things to make the world a better place. 20 00:01:04.200 --> 00:01:06.630 Does that sound like something you might be interested in? Yeah. 21 00:01:07.070 --> 00:01:09.070 What do you think an engineer looks like? 22 00:01:09.440 --> 00:01:11.940 Oh, like it has a yellow helmet. 23 00:01:12.070 --> 00:01:16.110 I like a little jacket it has tools inside its pocket. 24 00:01:16.140 --> 00:01:18.140 They have a helmet. 25 00:01:18.140 --> 00:01:19.610 Looks young. 26 00:01:19.610 --> 00:01:22.150 Like some safety glasses. 27 00:01:22.150 --> 00:01:24.820 They wear black. 28 00:01:25.750 --> 00:01:29.390 They have a jacket, but it's short sleeved. 29 00:01:29.960 --> 00:01:32.760 And then they would have some excellent shoes. 30 00:01:32.760 --> 00:01:32.890 Ah. They can 31 00:01:37.230 --> 00:01:39.230 look like anyone. 32 00:01:39.230 --> 00:01:42.400 Anyone. Yeah, exactly. 33 00:01:42.700 --> 00:01:43.670 I'm actually an engineer. 34 00:01:43.670 --> 00:01:45.470 Did you know that? Yeah. 35 00:01:45.470 --> 00:01:47.240 Oh, okay. Well, awesome. 36 00:01:47.240 --> 00:01:53.610 So everything you see the plane over there, that building engineers designed and built those things. 37 00:01:53.610 --> 00:01:55.010 Isn't that so cool? 38 00:01:55.010 --> 00:01:57.250 What's your favorite thing that you have ever built? 39 00:01:57.250 --> 00:01:58.620 A trampoline. 40 00:01:58.620 --> 00:02:00.950 A trampoline? Wow. 41 00:02:01.190 --> 00:02:04.220 My favorite thing to build is mini airplanes. 42 00:02:04.220 --> 00:02:05.460 Or origami. 43 00:02:05.460 --> 00:02:08.190 What is your favorite NASA program? 44 00:02:08.660 --> 00:02:12.900 I think I would say Artemis or maybe the Mars mission. 45 00:02:12.900 --> 00:02:18.100 What we're going to do with Artemis is we're going to send humans back to the moon and then onto Mars. 46 00:02:18.100 --> 00:02:20.370 Is that something you might want to do? 47 00:02:20.370 --> 00:02:21.040 Yeah. 48 00:02:21.040 --> 00:02:23.140 We could use so many more engineers. 49 00:02:23.140 --> 00:02:24.680 You should totally become an engineer. 50 00:02:24.680 --> 00:02:26.450 How old are you? Six. 51 00:02:26.450 --> 00:02:28.850 So you're just about the age that I was. 52 00:02:28.850 --> 00:02:33.650 And when I took a tour of Space Center Houston, I knew that I wanted to become an engineer. 53 00:02:33.650 --> 00:02:38.890 So hopefully you'll learn about some really cool stuff today that might inspire you to become an engineer. 54 00:02:39.090 --> 00:02:40.930 Do you think that would be cool? 55 00:02:40.930 --> 00:02:43.100 Super cool, Super cool. 56 00:02:43.400 --> 00:02:47.100 It's never too early to introduce a student in your life to engineering. 57 00:02:47.370 --> 00:02:51.870 Go to stem.nasa.gov to find fun ways to spark an interest today.