"Usually, girls weren't encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher, Ms. Paz Jensen, made math appealing and motivated me to continue studying it in college."
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"We are involved in technology development for, you know, missions that we hope to plan that would take us to an asteroid and eventually to Mars.“
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