Meet JPL Interns

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He launched an astonishing career at JPL then helped launch one of NASA's most ambitious missions all the way to Mars.

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As a high school student, Deepak Atyam spent two summers as an INSPIRE intern at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He shares some of his favorite memories in this photo essay.

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He's already been a classical violinist and a professional snowboarder. Now Montana State University student Andrew Crawford shares what it's like to be an intern in the Deep Space Network's Antenna Mechanical group at JPL.

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This summer NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory welcomed nine aspiring science teachers as interns, thanks to the Science Teacher and Researcher program (STAR).

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JPL summer interns aspiring to future careers in engineering and science share their experiences and advice.

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Summer interns in 2011 quite literally prepare for liftoff as major missions take flight at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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After her freshman year in college, Sherrisse Bryant began doing laboratory research during the summer. After that experience, she didn't want to stop!

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JPL summer intern David Hayden won a major prize in a Microsoft-sponsored competition for a device that helps low-vision students keep up with peers in classroom note-taking. Hayden is legally blind.

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Environmental Biology major and five-time JPL intern Ann Bui has won an environmental fellowship at her college that will combine her rainfall research at JPL with her interest in vulnerable ecosystems.

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Two high school students have a cosmic story to share about what they did during their summer internship at JPL.

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Six college interns at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory were front and center as first-ever, close-up views of comet Hartley 2 popped up on large monitors in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's mission control.

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High school intern Jessica Liang shares her experiences this summer working with the Mars Public Engagement team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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Heriberto Reynoso's summer internship is taking him one step closer to the moon. He is building software that will help engineers on a proposed mission called MoonRise.

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The common key ingredient in intern mentors at JPL is that they want to give guidance to those interested in pursuing science and engineering careers.

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This physics doctoral candidate helps decipher cosmic puzzles by day, and balances research and family life by night.

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It's a world of the infinitesimal. Nano-liters of material flow through micro-channels etched into a wafer-thin circle of glass.

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A former JPL intern presented her research about friending, sharing and tweeting for NASA Space Place at a science conference.

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Two JPL college interns delving into California's rainfall records have uncovered some interesting findings that may be linked to climate change.

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Three high school students share their experiences as interns at JPL.

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A love of astronomy helped one college student set a course for a variety of science internships at JPL.

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Returning for his fourth summer at JPL, Victor Mejia's focus this year: Writing software for JPL scientists.

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College student Gisselle Cunningham's summer stint on a JPL robotics project was the perfect fit.

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Six college students on a fellowship program spent their summer at JPL working on a mission that will one day image Earth using technology that is like a camera on steroids.

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More than 300 students have swelled JPL's ranks this summer, hailing from high schools, community colleges, four-year universities and graduate schools across the country.

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Not many teenagers can say they've worked on an instrument that will fly in space. This accomplishment is even more remarkable because he wants to be a scientist even though he can't see.

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