Emirati NASA Alumni Host Mexican-American NASA Intern In The UAE

UAE: Continuing to celebrate a global exchange of ideas and tech trends, Arab Youth Venture Foundation’s history making UAE-NASA Research Fellows Alumni Organization will play host to Mexican-American NASA intern, Jesus Trillo, during his semester abroad in the UAE at the American University of Sharjah.

The cross-culturally savvy UAE-NASA Research Fellows, in a show of alumni family sentiment, are eager to extend a warm welcome to Jesus, who interned at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama this past Spring. Over the next four months the UAE NASA Alumni will be sharing UAEs’ rich heritage and hospitable culture, while connecting over their shared interest in space technology, and NASA engineering and innovation.

Jesus is an undergraduate junior studying mechanical engineering at the University of Texas at El Paso. As with the UAE’s NASA research fellows, Jesus also joined a dynamic mission team for his four month internship working in his case in the Propulsion Systems Department of Marshall Center’s Engineering Directorate, Jesus was helping NASA engineers test components of the F1 liquid-fueled rocket engine- the most powerful rocket engine ever built.

Said Jesus Trillo, “Being an intern at NASA and working with the astonishing F1 rocket engine was a lifetime experience. It helped me grow as a person and as a professional engineer. I am excited and thankful to have a NASA family in the UAE who shares the same interests, goals, and dreams as me. I am ready to be part of this fantastic foundation AYVF and share my experiences with my fellow NASA Interns here in the UAE.”

Mejd Alsasri, a Sharajah NASA intern and AUS engineering graduate adds, “It is very important to build strong relationships and network with people coming from different backgrounds as it helps in sustaining the alumni’s mission by exchanging ideas that might be of great help in the development of many fields.”

UAE-NASA Research Fellows Alumni Organization launched in 2011, serves to promote networking among former NASA interns, as well as ensure the educational inspiration of Arab youth and to promote a commitment towards professional development in the aerospace, engineering, aviation, energy and technology communities within the GCC nations.

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