NASA Research Partnership Benefiting HBCU Students: GREENBELT, MD. — When NASA electronics engineer Robyn L. King tells the 10 summer interns he oversees at Goddard Space Flight Center that “the sky’s the limit,” it’s not just an empty idiom. Through a three-year collaborative research project that for the first time involves the space flight center and two HBCUs, orbit is a real-life potential destination for the microelectronics designs that the interns work on here each day. When prospective employers see the students’ NASA experience listed on their resumes, King predicts the employers will conclude the students gained meaningful research experience.
“They weren’t at a ‘busy work’ summer program that had a lot of fluff in it,” King says employers will deduce. “It was at least substantive.”
