Aprille Ericsson, talks about her passion for engineering and space, from a young girl growing up in Bookland, NY, to a trailblazing African American woman leading in her field as an aerospace engineer at NASA’s prestigious Goddard Space Flight Center where she is currently serving as Goddard Space Flight Center’s Program Manager for Small Business Innovative Research and Small Business Technology Transfer Research.
Aprille inspires all young people to follow their passion, and shares how young people can start working with NASA right now!

The 2015 X-STEM Symposium is sponsored by MedImmune and is a program of the USA Science & Engineering Festival.

Lockheed Martin is the Founding and Presenting Host of the USA Science & Engineering Festival.