“I always dreamed of being an engineer because I loved the building all my life,” she added.
Her passion was born when she started building with LEGOS as a four-year-old and told her mother, Daphne McQuarter, that she would one day work for the agency.
“I’m kind of a nerd for the NASA – sized Legos,” Wicker said. She completed high school this year after completing all of her homeschooling classes.
She is going to attend ASU this summer and is majoring in astronomical and planetary science and chemistry.
‘Study the stars in this online degree in astronomy and planetary science. You will explore planets, solar systems and galaxies to understand where we are coming from and where we are going to use the universe as your laboratory, ”reads the university’s website.
The program “provides you with broad training in the scientific foundations and fundamentals of space exploration, including continuous advances in the field,” he continued.
If all goes according to plan, Wicker will receive her diploma by the age of 16.
“I will be riding one of the future space mobiles by the time I study university,” Wicker said. He wants to build robbers like those sent to Mars in 2020.
The rover’s mission is to ‘look for signs of ancient life and collect monsters of rock and regolith (broken rock and soil) for possible return to Earth’, according to NASA.
However, Wicker said she plans everything while she goes, but encouraged others to set a goal and work on it.
‘It does not matter what your age is or what you plan to do. Go for it. Dream, then achieve it, ”she concluded.