 Mentoring is really important to me because, in my view, science is kind of like a trapped or a craft or a trade, and you have to teach that through hands-on and being engaged. It's not something that you can really learn from a book. So it's so important to have mentors just as apprentices work underneath master craftsmen. I am a research scientist in the biotechnology branch. I have such a passion for knowledge, and part of that is disseminating that knowledge, and to work with people, especially young people, and young people, I mean people in the K-12 arena and early undergraduate that are still trying to figure out who they are and what they're going to do with their lives. It's kind of a circle, and you know, when you reach out, it gives you purpose and meaning for what you do.