WEBVTT FILE 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.240 I actually started off as a teenager thinking  that I wanted to go work for NASA one day,   2 00:00:04.240 --> 00:00:09.280 and so I studied aerospace engineering initially  at university, but I became interested in ocean   3 00:00:09.280 --> 00:00:14.160 engineering towards the end of my university  career and then made that transition into   4 00:00:14.160 --> 00:00:17.520 studying the oceans, but always with the  idea in the back of my mind that wouldn't   5 00:00:17.520 --> 00:00:19.604 it be great to work for NASA one day? 6 00:00:19.604 --> 00:00:24.148 The only  thing that I was really good in high school was math. 7 00:00:24.148 --> 00:00:27.200 Math came easy to me, I  don't really have to study math,   8 00:00:27.200 --> 00:00:32.320 just, you know it was really easy,  that was the only thing I was good at,   9 00:00:32.320 --> 00:00:35.893 my counselor, of course, said "engineering is for you!" 10 00:00:35.893 --> 00:00:40.480 I think just my interest in math and science   11 00:00:40.480 --> 00:00:48.414 pushed me towards engineering, and liking or learning about how things worked. 12 00:00:48.426 --> 00:00:57.987 "Thank you to the women in STEM who have made the Hubble Space Telescope what it is today!"