Hi, I am Katie West.  I am a junior at Sam Houston State University, pursuing a degree in Physics with a minor in Mathematics.  I work in the Physics Department at Sam Houston teaching undergraduate physics labs and doing undergraduate research.  I am also a member of Sigma Sigma Sigma Sorority, the Society of Physics Students, and Sigma Pi Sigma Fraternity.  I was a Texas High School Aerospace Scholar the summer of 2004.  I graduated from McKinney High School in McKinney, TX in 2005.

My ambition is to become an astronaut.  NASA has always been a part of my dreams and now it will be part of my reality.  I look forward to getting to know everybody this summer.