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My name is Hannah Carter and I am from Tacoma, Washington. I graduated from Western Washington University.
I discovered my love for electronics at a young age from when my dad would take me to work with him. He worked on Satellite Trucks, and to a 4-year-old the idea that all those wires came together to create TV was astounding. Then my father introduced me to the concept of space through Star Trek, and I had found my passion.Â
To preface this section, I have had what many would call a surreal life. One can only really accurately sum this up with the curse "may you live in interesting times." Both a blessing in some cases and a curse in others. I mean, this if anything proves that there are days in which you fight owls, and there are days you get hired at Boeing. Neither of those are metaphors. Growing up on a farm was an interesting experience to say the least.
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In my sophomore year of college, I had the good fortune of being able to attend the Society of Women Engineers 2019 National conference. It was incredibly exciting, as before I even left Washington, I managed to make one of the best network connections in my life. I was supposed to take a flight out of Bellingham International Airport in the morning to reach a connecting flight in Seattle. A situation happened where they needed a few people to take the bump, so I volunteered. This led to me being put in first-class from Seattle to Los Angeles, where I managed to sit next to Joan Robinson-Berry, who at the time was the chief engineer of Boeing Global Services. I didn't know this at the time, but she and I struck up a conversation and I had one of the most reaffirming moments of my life. She at one point noticed my attire which consisted entirely of space-themed garments and she commented on the theme of my outfit and asked if I was going to apply to Boeing since they have an incredibly prominent space sector. I replied "Well, I hope to and I will, but I am a sophomore and I don't think that they will take me on. But I can use the interview experiences for next year so I have a better chance next time." She replied to me "You should apply, you're smart, we need people like you at Boeing." So I did, I marched up to the Boeing kiosk and asked if they had any managers who were hiring in the space sector. This landed me an interview, which after riding in on a three hour flight to Los Angeles with one of Boeing's chief engineers was no problem. Especially considering that she still liked me after the flight, even offering to print off copies of my resume and have one of her assistants give them to me at the conference if I ran out. This is one of the most surreal experiences in my life (only second to the time I waged trench warfare with an owl), and I know that I will never forget it. That flight gave me the courage to go talk to people who I never would have talked to in my life. Who I would have never had the courage to talk to, and now I have started my career in ways that keep surprising me. I hope to pass that onto someone who comes after me.
During my Junior year of college, I was given the exciting opportunity to talk at The Opportunity Talks Breakfast as a representative of both Boeing and the Washington State Opportunity Scholarship. I currently work for the Washington State Opportunity Scholarship as a scholar lead and I work for Boeing part-time as a Satellite Engineering Intern. This was very amusing to explain to the committee who was assigning mentors, that yes there was indeed a conflict of interest with them assigning me a mentor from Blue Origin as I currently work for their competitor, Boeing. To film this, I got to drive down to the Renton Boeing facility and after the filming was done, I was able to wander the factory floor and managed to lose 4 hours doing so.
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