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AMTC DIRECTOR: You have a pair of cutters?

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MATT: You didn't have
a pair of diagonal cutters,

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there, do you?

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I'm Matthew Davis.

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I am 23 years old,
and I'm a senior,

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graduating with electrical
engineering degree.

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You want my criminal history?

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[LAUGHING] I'm joking.

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When I was a little kid,
I really loved anything

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like, remote control.

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Remote control airplane,
remote control car, I loved it.

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I like tinkering
around with stuff.

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And once, I tried
making my own submarine.

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That didn't work out too well.

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Well, I went to Diamond
Regional High School.

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It's a vocational school.

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I was playing on get my
license as electrician

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and doing residential
wiring, and stuff like that.

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I did that for
about maybe a year,

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and I didn't really like it.

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I definitely felt
I could be doing

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something more with myself.

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I figured I would just try to
give it a shot, back to school,

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try something different.

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So I went down to BCC and
then started off there.

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I started taking some
engineering-related classes.

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And then I kind of
started liking it.

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And then started
picking a direction.

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I figured since I had the
electrical background,

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electrical engineering to
seem like a good way to go.

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PROGRAM COORDINATOR: There's a lot
of kids are coming out

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of high school who still don't
really know what's out there.

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Bristol Community
College received a grant

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from the National
Science Foundation.

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It's an advanced technology
education program.

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Early on, I began working
with the Advanced Technology

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Manufacturing Center.

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And the idea is to help
prepare our young engineers

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to go into the working world
to become better technicians.

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And one of the best ways to do
that is through internships.

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AMTC DIRECTOR: We're trying
to be that gateway,

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that connection to industry.

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PROGRAM COORDINATOR: Education and business
have to come together.

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That program has to have
both those aspects of it

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in order for it to
work effectively.

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MATT: So these are
all the different companies

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that are in the ATMC building.

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And where I'm going is
actually Ocean Server.

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The internship
consists of working

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with Ocean Server, which
produces AUVs, which are

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autonomous underwater vehicles.

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It's pretty much
a submarine that

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can be sent into the
water autonomously.

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All you need to do is
load up your mission.

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INSTRUCTOR: So here, we just have a
three waypoint mission here.

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And at each particular
waypoint, you

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can control the
vehicle's behavior.

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MATT: And you send it to the water.

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And it'll run its mission
and return to its checkpoint.

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STUDENT 1: You get a lot
of data analysis experience.

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You're working with
other companies.

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It's a lot different
than the classroom.

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The classroom you
learn a lot of theory.

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But here, you really get
a hands-on experience

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and do stuff that
can help later on.

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STUDENT 2: The experience
so far has been great.

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I have worked with
different people-- people

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from other companies.

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That helped me because
I had the confidence

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during the several
interviews that I had.

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MATT: I dealt
with running AUVs,

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and also collect data
that's off the AUV, which

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could be side scan
sonar data, which

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is just a primitive
image of the bottom.

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You can get the
optometric data, which

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can allow you to do the
topography of a pond

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or anything like that.

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So you can go like,
the depth contours,

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and stuff along those lines.

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PROGRAM COORDINATOR: Are we going to talk
about how you lost the AUV?

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That was not--

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AMTC DIRECTOR: Maybe.

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MATT: We've had a couple incidences
where it went down and didn't

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come up for a little while.

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So it made us nervous.

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But it came back
to us eventually.

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And we able to process the
data and go through that

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and see how it worked
and maybe where it

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had errors and whatnot.

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And then we figured
out that running

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the mission so close to shore
might have been a good idea.

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But I mean, it was fun.

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AMTC DIRECTOR: An internship allows you
to have experience working

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with projects that
require a deadline, that

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require you to have an answer.

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It's not just
open-ended research.

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And it requires you to
have budget constraints.

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Things that employers
are interested that you

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are sensitive to.

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And when you drop those
things on your resume, when

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you drop those things
in your interview,

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then you start to
realize that you've

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got a lot more than someone who
just went through a classroom

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experience.

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MATT: I used to work at--

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you guys are going to
get a kick out of this.

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I used to work at
Chuck E. Cheese.

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Worked there for seven years.

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I just quit last weekend.

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PROGRAM COORDINATOR: Now you
received a job offer?

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MATT: Yes, I did.

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PROGRAM COORDINATOR: Where are you going?

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MATT: Teledyne Benthos,
up in Falmouth, Massachusetts.

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They're similar to
what we're doing now.

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So they looked at this
experience and kind of like,

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yeah.

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It's kind of the
direction we're looking.

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So I want to become
electrical engineer.

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It definitely sounded like
something I want to get into.

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So I just pursued it.

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And next thing I knew I had
a full time position here.

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And I'm excited, because it's a
job and something I want to do.

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Success story.

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See?

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Don't give up.

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