Meet Janelle Wellons, an MIT graduate and rocket scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She worked on the Cassini Mission to Saturn and is now working on lunar and Earth based missions! She shares her story from a childhood love for rockets and math, to the bullying and racism she experienced from other kids, to getting into MIT and then NASA JPL. She is paying it forward with the outreach she is doing to empower girls in STEM to believe in themselves. Make sure to check out JanelleWellons.com and follow Janelle on her social media channels: @itsjanellie,  facebook.com/janelle.wellons, and twitter.com/Janelle.Wellons.

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