July 25, 2022

Hedaya Walter has her eyes on the skies. Her dream is to work for NASA, leveraging her undergraduate studies in electrical and computer engineering to deploy rovers and drones on uncharted planets.

Her week spent at Cornell’s SoNIC workshop – a crash course in robotics with nearly 30 other U.S. students, hosted by the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science – helped clarify how to make that dream a reality.