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My name is April Lanotte and I’m the STEM 
Integration Lead for NASA's Aeronautics Research  

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Mission Directorate and I live here in Colorado. 
So, my job working with the LBFD team is to see  

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what's going on, to learn more about what we're 
doing here at NASA and then take that and figure  

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out ways to bring it into the classroom. I spend 
a lot of time learning more about what's going on,  

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taking a look at what's happening within the 
mission and finding the best ways to connect  

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all of those different elements and build 
something that students and teachers can use.  

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My favorite part about being a teacher was 
always watching the excitement on their face  

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when they discovered something or they saw 
something for real that they had just done.  

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So, they might have read about it they might have 
seen it in a movie but to actually experience it,  

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build it, get something to work that they built 
with their own two hands is probably the best part  

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about teaching. Kids love the X59. The X59 is such 
a unique looking aircraft. It looks futuristic.  

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It's different than any other airplane that 
people have seen. When I’m not working for NASA,  

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you'll typically find me out in my garden, or 
you'll find me camping or fishing with my family  

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or you'll find me and my kids at the 
cat sanctuary where we volunteer.  

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We did adopt one of the kittens, so we 
caved in and we now have Milo who's one  

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of our one of our little kittens in our house. 
Whether you want to be an engineer or a pilot  

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or a scientist, that's one element, but 
we have such a huge need for all kinds  

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of other people to become a part of our NASA 
family as well. Everyone has a place in STEM!