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NASA recruiters stop at Fairbanks high schools, UAF job fair
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by Reba Lean / rlean@newsminer.com
March 3, 2011
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FAIRBANKS — Two NASA employees from the Goddard Space Flight Center came to Fairbanks this week to drum up interest in opportunities with their organization. They visited local high schools and the University of Alaska Fairbanks Student Job Fair.
Goddard is one of 10 space flight centers in the nation but isn’t as well known as the Kennedy Space Center or Houston’s Johnson Space Center. At Goddard, NASA develops and operates unmanned spacecraft and manages Earth-observing satellites, astronomy and space physics missions.
Janine Dolinka, a recruiter from Goddard in Greenbelt, Md., and Andrea Dye, an electrical engineer at Goddard, traveled to Fairbanks on a grant from NASA. They gave presentations to Monroe Catholic High School, Lathrop High School and Effie Kokrine Charter School on Tuesday. On Wednesday, they had a booth at UAF’s job fair.
Dye doesn’t travel much as an electrical engineer. Mostly she does software designs for projects. On her trip to Fairbanks, she tried to get students excited about possibilities in NASA. Being in high schools reminded her of when she was a student.
“I was really into math and science,” Dye told Effie Kokrine students. She attended college at the Rochester Institute of Technology before getting a position with Goddard. She has worked full-time as an engineer for two years.
Dolinka told high school students about studying of the sun (heliophysics), mapping the moon and designing satellites and telescopes.
“At Goddard, we work there because nobody does what we do,” she told students.
Finding NASA interns in Fairbanks is not a stretch.
Jaguar (Jay) Kristeller has a NASA internship this coming summer. The Lathrop High School junior met NASA Recruiter Michael Comberiate last fall when he came to Fairbanks to demonstrate a robot.
“Jay loves robots and designing and building them,” his dad Peter Kristeller wrote in an e-mail. “In fact, Jay is competing with 13 other Lathrop teams and 25 other robot teams from around Alaska in the FIRST Robotics Challenge at the university this Friday and Saturday.”
Kristeller and Comberiate kept in touch, and now Kristeller will be able to help with Comberiate’s Greenland Robot.
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Contact reporter Reba Lean at 459-7523.
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