When she was in high school, Rachel Weeks enjoyed English literature, particularly writing. But she also liked math and science. It was her English teacher who suggested a career like engineering, where she could do both.
With a degree in Aerospace Engineering and part way through a masters, Rachel now works as a systems test engineer with United Launch Alliance and she uses a lot of math and science, and she writes a lot of procedures and steps.
Rachel, who grew up in Orlando, remembers watching as rockets would launch from Cape Canaveral, and now she is working on the Mars 2020 project, which involves landing Perseverance Rover on the Martian surface.
On this episode of Run it Like a Girl, Rachel also talks about her role as marketing director at Reinvented Magazine, a non-profit printed publication aimed at women in STEM by women in STEM.
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