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Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Summer Student Internships
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(Screen-text: Gisselle Cunningham, Computer Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of NYU '09) My name is Gisselle Cunningham; I am from Polytechnic Institute in New York University. It's located in Brooklyn, New York.
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I am part of the MEI group, which stands for minority education and initiative program. 
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I work in the section 347, the robotics mobility program and the lab that I do work in is the CLARaty software development lab.
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I'm currently interning with my mentor, Richard Petris and Dr. Tara Estlin.
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What they wanted was to be able to plot rover trajectories like in a visual presentation format. And the best way the thought would be is to go through Google Earth.
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Why is this important? You can use this program to make your analysis of anything that has coordinate-sensitive information.
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For instance, you can determine where the rover went. Was its trajectory predictable? Was it precise?
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Obviously, it's good for visual representation.
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If you want to use this in meetings that you're having to see how your progress is going or to show the public what you've accomplished so far.
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At school, I'm into robotics, I'm studying computer engineering which is half computer science engineering and half electrical engineering.  
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So if you take the two of them together, the programming with the hardware and software, in a way, you kind of get a robot.
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I want to work with prosthetics, robotic prosthetics, with people who are missing limbs and things like that. Even get more in depth with nanotechnology and medicine delivery.
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Having JPL on my resume I think for me is a huge, huge deal. It's a great, very great environment.
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You have all your resources here available to you. The people, they're very friendly. 
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They want to help you if you need help with anything. It's a place where your ideas are welcome.
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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
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