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My name is Charles Doxley. I work at the NASA Glenn Research Center for the avionics division.
I'm an electronics engineer, and I work for the compatibility test sets project. I have
a Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics from Albany State University in Albany, Georgia and a
Master's Degree from Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama.
Compatibility test sets project is the next generation compatibility test set which is
replacing the compatibility test sets van, and what we do is we test future space radios
to make sure they are compatible with the TDRSS tracking and data relay satellite system.
So they don't cause damage when you connect to them.
The opportunity to work at NASA seemed so exciting to me that I actually held off the
completion of my thesis and came to NASA Glenn Research Center and worked three co-op rotations
consecutively just so I can have an opportunity at a job. And once I was done with my co-ops,
I was hired on directly after I went back to Tuskegee for two weeks and presented my
master's thesis.
I think Black History month is extremely important. One of the most important things about the
current state of Black History Month is just learning about our heritage and what we've
come from and the struggles that African-Americans have been through to get to the point that
they are today. To now understand that anything is possible. We see African-American presidents—President,
Barack Obama. We see African-American Superbowl champions, Russell Wilson. So now, the goal
in the African-American community, and about just black history in general, should be understanding
that anything is possible, but how can we make things more probable. We need more youth
involved in STEM in general—science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—whether they're
black, white, Asian, Latino, Native American. Currently, in America we're in the technology
age. So, if we want to continue to grow and be one of the leading nations in the world,
we have to invest in STEM and our young people in STEM. So we can continue to grow as a country
and a nation.