Breaking the engineering mold

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- An engineer in our society they,

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they don't look like me but I'm here

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to break that mold.

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- [Narrator] This Great Big Story was

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made possible by Accenture. (upbeat music)

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- My name is Dayjia Moore Williams

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and it's kind of hard to explain but I.

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- [Narrator] Don't worry Dayjia.

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Dayjia is a manufacturing engineer at NASA's

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Jet Propulsion Lab.

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She's also a musician. - Well said.

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I literally couldn't have said it better myself.

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- [Narrator] Thank you Dayjia.

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Let's get back to where it all started.

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Dayjia's love of Science all began when

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she was growing up in St. Louis.

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- I grew up on the south side of

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St. Louis Missouri in a single parent

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household with my mom.

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I got into Science because of a program