Lauren Egts

746 points

Ohio

Lauren Egts, a student at Rochester Institute of Technology, has interned at Bank of America, GE Aviation, and the NASA Glenn Research Center Graphics and Visualization Lab (GVIS). She has won the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) Ohio Affiliate Award four times, and the National Runner-Up Award once. She has won Opensource.com’s “People’s Choice Award” for an article on girls and computer science education. She is also a featured contributor and author for Opensource.com. She has also won Intel's Excellence in Computer Science Award for her work at NASA. She is proud to have been the programming captain for her FRC team, FRC 2399 The Fighting Unicorns.

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Authored Content

Image processing at NASA with open source tools

This past summer, I was an intern at the GVIS Lab at NASA Glenn, where I brought my passion for open source into the lab. My task was to improve our lab's contributions to an…

Young computer scientist shares her open source story

I've been using open source for a while—seven years, to be exact. That may not seem like a long time, but when you're 16 that's almost half your life. My open source story is…

Manipulating data in 3D with LidarViewer

For many people, a cave is just that, but for the NASA Graphics and Visualization (GVIS) team and I, it's a CAVE(™), or Cave Automatic Virtual Environment. In simpler terms, a…

Outline of a plane in the sky with clouds

US Air Force lab: robots, open source, and virtual reality

The Graphics and Visualization (GVIS) lab at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio specializes in creating scientific visualizations and virtual reality programs for…

The Fighting Unicorns charge into robotics competition with open source edge

When I think of open source, I think of FIRST. FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) is training the next generation of open source contributors…

Shortlist of open source software used at NASA lab

The offer was too good to be true. Three whole weeks at the NASA Glenn Research Center and an invitation to come back. I could scarcely believe it when I read the email. I…