Summer Interns: In Their Own Words

September 25, 2008

More than 300 high school and college interns worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory this summer in areas such as robotic hardware systems and nano- and micro-systems.

Two of this year’s crop are computer-engineering major Gisselle Cunningham, a senior at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, and Victor Mejia, a senior applied math and computing major at UCLA. Both interns came to JPL through one of the lab’s minority-initiative programs.

Here are their stories.

Media contacts: Rhea Borja 818-354-0850 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.