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my name is Arianna Levitt I'm from

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Brooklyn New York I'm a fiber science

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major and I'm a junior since freshman

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year I really wanted to get involved in

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research and I heard about other

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students in human ecology getting

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involved in research and wanted to do it

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as well and since fiber science is a

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really small department I got to know

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the professor's really well you know

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what they do research about and then I

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knew that I wanted to do in the lab I

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electro spin nano fibers and go into

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excited Facebook kind from a polymer

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solution I make nano fibers so I stretch

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the polymer solution into fibers and

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they're conductive fibers which will

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allow me to hopefully make conductive

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yarns in the future I want to use them

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in a circuit so instead of wires I'll be

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using yarns that are conductive so I can

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put these fibers or yarns into clothing

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and make wearable technology when I

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started in a lab I worked with a

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graduate student I was basically

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shadowing her and watching what she does

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learning procedures from her and then

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later on I started working on my own

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project

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professor fright specifically works with

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nanotechnology but she also works with

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conductive nanoparticles and she's

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working on build a filtration device

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that can filter out viruses through the

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air that you breathe in I think it's

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really exciting to be able to work

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firsthand with cutting-edge materials

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and cutting-edge new technology

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basically nano technology is really

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up-and-coming and it's been great

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learning firsthand what I can do with

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that and I think working in research has

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definitely opened up some doors for me

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because at first I thought I wanted to

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work in an industry like an athletic

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wear industry

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and like that but now I might want to

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work more in research get a PhD

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hopefully maybe do something more in

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that field

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