THE INTERVIEW


Wood's first job was working at a shipyard in Newport News, Virginia.


then decided I hated chemistry and switched to physics.


Over the summer, before my senior year of high school I went to Germany to visit a foreign exchange student and her family who had lived with us previously. When I was there, my friend Anja wanted to throw me a surprise birthday party, and she wanted me out of the house to prepare everything. So, her dad, who was a mechanical engineer, who


worked for a company that built conveyor systems, took me to work with him. He was working on merging two packaging lines that had two different sized boxes to come together and kind of float together. He talked to me about his problems, he let me play with his CAD programme and I was hooked. I attribute him to getting me interested in engineering and, after that, those were the types of schools I started looking at.


My first job was working at a shipyard in Newport


News, Virginia. I got engaged to my husband Ashley Wood and then eventually moved to Georgia, where he was based and found a job at Ace Industries.


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