Audience
Educators, Students
Grade Levels
Grades K-4, Grades 5-8, Grades 9-12, Informal Education
Subject
Careers, Life Science, Living and Working in Space
Type
Videos
As the saying goes, “one person’s trash is another person’s treasure” and at NASA, Annie Meier is that person! Annie is a space waste engineer working on technologies to convert waste into vital resources for human space travel. Trash can be used to produce important gasses and even water – commodities astronauts traveling to another planet can’t just pick up along the way.
Surprisingly STEM is a video series that highlights exciting and unexpected careers at NASA. Each episode highlights a member of NASA’s workforce, focusing on their unique job and how their personal journey led them to that career.
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