NASA Engineer Visits Reed Academy

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Tracy Drain, a systems engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, visited with sixth graders at Reed Academy on December 14, 2012. Drain is a systems engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in CA. Drain has helped design, test, and analyze spacecraft that are orbiting Mars and are on their way to Jupiter. She hopes to someday contribute to a mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa. Drain’s experiences and career inspired the students who asked inquiring questions about space, her job, and her education. She related that she had been an ordinary student, but found what interested her the most and pursued it. She loves what she does and finds it to be an exciting career. She told students to look for what interests them as they go through school and to follow their dreams.