 Mentoring for me is important because we have an opportunity to talk to many different students that come in from our different programs. I've participated in BSA Scouts mentoring in our GEMS program and we have students who are in middle school and high school that come from many different backgrounds and having those people involved in STEM I think going forward is going to be very important for us to have different viewpoints and to be able to continue advance and to have STEM activities help society. I'm a computational scientist so I work with supercomputers and I build computer models of physical systems and so the world around us and so that we can model those and predict how they work. Inspiring young children I wish I knew the secret to that. I try to do different programs and hands-on things because I found that they're very interested in trying things out and seeing new things and so if they can do that themselves some experiments I think that gets them much more interested and then we can talk about the science behind those experiments and what they observed and I think that's what gets them interested in understanding more about STEM activities. I would encourage other Army researchers to become involved there's a lot of opportunities with the GEMS program with BSA Scouts with other activities we have college students come in it's really a way to give back and get the future generations motivated to take over from us when we're done and so they can continue to advance that science and move it forward.