This Summer I will be interning at the NASA Glenn Research Center! I will be a programmer for data analysis of the space propulsion center located in their Plum Brook station in Sandusky Ohio.
With such an awesome opportunity, I wanted to talk about how my scholars program MMC (Media, Marketing, and Communications) helped get me here! Within MMC, we are given the opportunity to take classes inside the Sandbox. These classes/project groups range from learning how to make basic audio, to marketing, to professional development, all the way to learning how to create apps in Android.
So how did MMC help me end up at NASA? It starts by going back to second semester of freshman year. It was here where I learned WordPress, a tool used for creating websites. It was this knowledge that helped me land my internship for last Summer at a local business where I was able to take their old websites and create new ones that were e-commerce powered all by using WordPress! I strongly believe that being able to land that first internship and being able to put it on my resume strongly helped make my case to NASA.
But that’s not the only way that MMC helped me land this upcoming internship. My second year of college I have been working in the Sandbox for MMC as an instructor. I have been able to pass on my knowledge of WordPress and programming in languages like Java to fellow MMC students. This has helped to build my public speaking skills, organizational skills, leadership traits, and the ability to convey a message in a way that relates to whoever I’m speaking with.
I strongly believe that MMC was a key factor in getting my internship for the reasons above and I am thankful for having the opportunity to have been able to be in such a great program.