Kimiora Broadbridge had the opportunity to be part of the United States Space Camper Program. The 16-year-old who attends Suva Grammar School participated with Mikel Fareed in the program at the US Space and Rock Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The program inspires and engages youth through real-world applications of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).
Kaila!’s Acting Deputy Editor, Debra Strong had an opportunity to sit with her for a Q&A session after returning to Fiji. Q: Before this program, what did you want to become? I wanted to do something in the medical field, but I was stuck between engineering and medicine. Q: How did you find out about the program? We actually found out about it a day before the applications closed.
My mum saw it on Facebook, and we decided to make the video around midnight – it was due at midday the next day. It was a very long and hard process because I was really tired and kept stuttering, but I’m glad that I did it. Q: Do you feel like you had a full understanding of what the opportunity was? Not really, I had like a lot of questions, what did it involve, what would we do, who I would go with, the reason why as I’d only ever heard about it once, so it was really new to me.
Q: What did you think of these subjects when you started to learn a little bit more about STEM? It’s definitely not easy. It takes a lot of time and dedication. Since I am a pure science student and I take physics, which is a tough subject, it .