An 18-year old 12 class student from a village in West Bengal has been chosen by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for its prominent Goddard Internship Program (GIP) at the Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS). Sataparna Mukherjee, a 12th grader from St Judes School in Madhyamgram, was among the list of five world class researchers looked over the globe for this programme. She will be leaving the nation on August 17 subsequent after attending her last school examination. The youngster will seek after graduation, post-graduation, and Phd as NASA staff in Aerospace Engineering from Oxford University’s London Astrobiology Center. This possibility came as doorway after some of her discoveries on ‘Dark Hole Theory’ was
profoundly praised by NASA.
Aside from the academic scholarship, she will likewise get the chance to work as a researcher at the NASA centre situated in London, said Sataparna. She will be a part of the research group at Earth Science and Technology Development program of NASA under the programme. Each year NASA’s GIP chooses five remarkable people from over the world under the GIP program, furthermore supports their whole education assets subsequently after the school.
Her father Pradip Mukherjee being a headmaster of a primary school in the village said that ‘He is exceedingly proud with his girl and she has made the whole nation glad. She was granted a scholarship last August however we couldn’t acknowledge the offer as we would have needed to pay for her living expenses and everyday costs there. In October, Nasa said they were prepared to bear all her expenses.’ Despite the fact that NASA is bearing each and every expense Mukherjee said that he needs to plan the travel costs, which is very high. I am considering taking an loan since I would prefer not to drop this opportunity. he included.
Mukherjee is certain when talking about her objective to change how individuals and society think, and to advance an scientific reason. she says, ‘I have picked English and science as my subjects. The languages of both help communicating and deciphering observations. Also, that is all what I need. Landing high salaried positions had never been my motivation. I desire to change the thinking pattern of man. I’m sure science and literature will offer me some assistance with doing so.’
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