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Don't worry about it. Put it in there, and start putting your bolts in."
It was a day filled with duct tape boats and
coffee filter lunar landers at NASA's 2013 Career Days.
The event was a joint collaboration between
NASA Langley and the Newport News Shipbuilding
where 600 high schoolers from Virginia took on two design challenges.
"So you are designing a capsule to land on Mars,
just like NASA scientists did in August of 2013."
The second challenge was to build a boat made out of
duct tape and make it float in water, all while adding weight.
As the day went on, students could only express
their excitement of what they were learning.
[ BAGALKOTKAR ] "You really need hands-on experience.
You have to talk to people and ask questions to learn about it."
And most of all, they learned what it means to be an explorer.
[ GIERSCH ] "Because we need you, 'cause you're the next generation of explorers."