I have completed the VASTS Summer Academy, which drew me to the future of aerospace engineering. Before I attended this summer academy or any classes related to engineering, I was interested in meteorology, but I am now interested in pursuing a field in aerospace engineering. I want to make an impactful difference in the future in aerospace engineering. To start, the VASTS Summer Academy has a few key points. At the VASTS Summer Academy, we learned more about aerospace engineering and got to practice in the field. To get into the Summer Academy, students had to excel in the main class, and the top students were invited to the Summer Academy, and I was one of them. I attended the VASTS Summer Academy and was picked for the Cost, Mass, and Budget Specialist job on the Science and Surface Operations team. This team dealt with the on-the-job operations on Mars. During this academy, we learned a lot about aerospace engineering. In the academy, our mission was to design a mission to Mars. We had to work together with other teams while also getting real-life experience to ensure that this mission turned out correctly, even though we only had a week to complete the mission. This was stressful and required precise work, but our teams worked together to complete the mission. There were a few setbacks regarding arguments between teams and issues with specific topics, but they were eventually solved, and we finished our mission. We also got to experience the life of aerospace engineering. Seeing the job front entirely drew me to aerospace engineering. While at this summer academy, we got to go on tours and see different parts of NASA, which made me want to explore the aerospace engineering job. Students got to see people working in their careers for NASA, and seeing this interested me and made me interested in the field. While I was always interested in astronomy and engineering, I was never fully drawn to this field until I saw the people working, and I got to talk and meet with some of them, which made me develop an understanding and want to pursue this career in the future. With me planning to pursue a degree in aerospace engineering, I feel that I will be able to make a difference. When I go to college, I want to be able to make a distance in the future. One topic I have been wondering about since I was little is how far humans can humans go and how fast they will be able to do this. Humans develop new technologies fast, but how fast will they be able to explore more of the semi-infinite universe? The universe has planets similar to Earth or with other materials that could be helpful in the future. Therefore, I want to help and research while in college and beyond to get further and help humans in the long run. With this, I am trying to help as much as I can. I want to research our system, see how the universe works, and eventually figure out the best and fastest way that humans can travel. I want to make a difference in the world; I want humans to be able to reach new places with impactful technology.