Houston, we have a podcast. Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space Center,

Episode 292, Students and Space Jeans. I'm Gary Jordan, and I'll be your host today.

On this podcast, we bring in the experts, scientists, engineers, astronauts, students,

I'll let you know what's going on in the world of human spaceflight and more.

We're lucky to get the chat with scientists, engineers, and students on the podcast to demonstrate

the widespread opportunities that the International Space Station offers. What's become

increasingly clear to me is that there are so many ways for students to get involved in space

that inspire potential career paths, particularly in engineering and science.

One such opportunity is a program called Jeans and Space. Running every year since 2015,

this program collects proposals from middle and high school students who design an experiment

to run aboard the International Space Station. However, winds get to see their experiment fly

to space and run by astronauts. Now this competition calls out to students interested in science.

Focusing on DNA, Jeans and Space gives students a taste of what life would be like as part of the

large scientific community that contributes to research on the International Space Station,

and often inspires these students to pursue a career in these fields. We're lucky to have

join us today, Scott Copeland, co-founder of the Jeans and Space Program at Boeing,

and pristine Anoha, the student winner of the Jeans and Space 2022 competition.

No sweatpants today, we're dressing up for Jeans and Space.

Scott and pristine, thanks so much for coming on Houston Maple Podcast today.

Thank you very much for having us here today. We're excited to participate.

Yeah, I think for having us, I'm really excited.

Yeah, happy to have you both. This is really cool. I get to talk with the co-founder of Jeans and Space

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