He came in and quickly learned how to use PIMS, attending a PIMS class the first day he arrived. We immediately put Otutu to work trouble shooting a problem we thought we were having at the time with the workflow. He was given the job of testing reliability of our web site, where all the files necessary to download and set up PIMS resided. Kamalu met regularly with software engineers to discuss any problems he found during his work with PIMS and gained insight as to how PIMS was designed. This program pairs minority and disabled college students with NASA researchers and engineers as mentors.
Students perform research and experiments, and then present their findings.
He gave us a demonstration of the system, talked about problems with the documentation that he'd found, and gave us some insight into how we can improve our web site so that we may better serve our customers. I've recommended that Otutu take some classes on JAVA and any of the other technologies that he was exposed to on this project in preparation for his return next year. The Summer Scholars Internship Program is sponsored by Marshall's Equal Opportunity Office and is open to students who have a 3.0 or better grade point average, as well as a minimum score of 1,200 on the Scholastic Aptitude Test.