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Tuesday, July 22, 2025

T&T students win Nasa scholarships

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Two stu­dents from the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI), St Au­gus­tine, have won schol­ar­ships to par­tic­i­pate in a four-month in­tern­ship pro­gramme at Nasa's Ames Re­search Cen­ter in Moun­tain View, Cal­i­for­nia, be­gin­ning Tues­day.Ja­son Ren­wick, 19, from San­ta Cruz and Ste­fan Ho­sein, 21, from Ch­agua­nas, were award­ed the in­tern­ships fol­low­ing a rig­or­ous com­pe­ti­tion which in­clud­ed more than 20 of the na­tion's bright­est lo­cal stu­dents study­ing sci­ence, tech­nol­o­gy, en­gi­neer­ing and math­e­mat­ics (Stem).

This is the first Nasa In­ter­na­tion­al In­tern­ship Pro­gramme (NASA I2) with T&T. It was launched lo­cal­ly in Feb­ru­ary and is the re­sult of a part­ner­ship be­tween Nasa and the Na­tion­al In­sti­tute of High­er Ed­u­ca­tion, Re­search, Sci­ence and Tech­nol­o­gy (Ni­herst). Oth­er part­ners in­clude the US Em­bassy, Port-of-Spain, and UWI.

The two stu­dents will fol­low an in­tense study pro­gramme in their fields of spe­cial­i­sa­tion. Ren­wick will re­search elec­tron­ics prog­nos­tics, while Ho­sein's work will fo­cus on bi­o­log­i­cal­ly-in­spired ma­chine in­tel­li­gence. They will be con­duct­ing cut­ting-edge re­search un­der the men­tor­ship of se­nior sci­en­tists at Nasa, as well as at­tend­ing lec­tures and sem­i­nars at lead­ing re­search cen­tres, vis­it­ing state-of-the-art lab­o­ra­to­ries, and in­ter­act­ing with some of the world's best minds in Stem.

"I feel ho­n­oured to be cho­sen for this in­cred­i­ble op­por­tu­ni­ty ful­fill­ing a life­long dream of mine which be­gan when I joined the Nasa kids club at the age of sev­en," Ren­wick said. "I hope to make the most of this op­por­tu­ni­ty for the ben­e­fit of all in­volved, to en­hance my per­son­al de­vel­op­ment, as well as my fu­ture stud­ies and ca­reer as an en­gi­neer."

Ho­sein plans to pur­sue a doc­tor­ate in the field of ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence. He said, "I hope to bring back all the knowl­edge I gain from this unique ex­pe­ri­ence and help build the field of com­put­er sci­ence in T&T."


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