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Hi I am Peter Cullen, the voice of OPTIMUS PRIME.

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I’m here today at NASA’s

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Goddard Space Flight Center with the next

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generation of engineers.

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The winning teams for the 2017 NASA

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OPTIMUS PRIME Spinoff Promotion

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and Research Challenge,

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otherwise known as NASA OPSPARC.

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These young creative minds took NASA technology

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and were able to use it to solve different problems

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and find solutions that can help all humankind.

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Hi, I’m Nick, I'm Erik, I'm Atherton, and  I'm Hays

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We're from the Baylor School in Chattanooga, TN.

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We used the microshutter array technology

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from the James Webb Space Telescope

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and combined it with fiber optic cables to create faster

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and cheaper communication routes.

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Now guys your team competed against many high

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school students all over the United States but

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first of all, congratulations guys, but I have a question.

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How did you come up with your idea?

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As we mentioned before, we are from Chattanooga, Tennessee

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an innovative city with gigabit internet.

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In order to keep up with this trend of big data, we foresaw the need

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to improve current fiber optic systems.

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Our preliminary research gave us a general understanding of

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how fiber optic systems work.

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We accessed publicly available NASA resources

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in order to understand how microshutter arrays work.

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Having done our research

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we made a rough digital model to bring our idea to life

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and to bring the initial concept to life.

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We created a glog or a digital poster.

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We heard we were selected to

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move on to the next round, where we entered the

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NIA Universe Virtual World Space to create

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3D models of the design with the help of our

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college mentor.

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Now you can come up with own cool solution.

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So join us for next years OPSPARC Challenge,

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where creativity and technology come together and

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new ideas are formed.

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Be the spark, join OPSPARC

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