Welcome to My Life: Richard Glover
Hi everyone. My name is Richard Glover. I am a high school student working with Marc Buie. My Job is to assist in creating "pages" for the World Wide Web, as well as graphical information for Marc to use in talks, Web pages, etc. I work with Josh Andrews ( another high school student ) here at lowell observatory.
My Science teacher told me about this opportunity about five months ago.
naturally I jumped at the chance to work at one of the most famous
observatories in the world. I love to work with computers, and I have
always been fascinated with Space, and astronomy. Untill I was about 6
years old I wanted more than anything to be an astronaut. Viewing the
Challenger Disaster live on national TV will put a halt to dreams like
that suprisingly fast
Going to college is one of the foremost things on my mind right now.
(freshmen in HS tend to get that way fairly quickly :-) ) This job
provides
a wonderful line of text on a college application.
To prepare for a job like mine, a person has to have a love for computers,
and a desire to know how everything works. If you have ever played a video
game, and wondered how the lump of plastic sitting on the desk can make
the alien spaceships on the screen, you can be a "programmer". I consider
myself a computer programmer. I write lines of special "code" that computer
programs like "Netscape Navigator"(r) can read, and interpret into the "Web
Page" that you see on the screen when you use these programs. All of this
knowledge that I gained over the years has helped me with this job.
My largest influence has probably been my father. He taught me almost
everything I know about computers. I accredit my success with computers
to
him. I love (hate?) the machines. I hope one day to do something interesting
with them. I would also like to thank Ms. Mellisa Byers, and Mr. Jim Ott from
Kanab Elementary school, Mr. Russ Kasch from Marshall Elementary School, Ms.
Dianne Sohm, and Mr. Donald Dugan from Flagstaff Middle School, Mr. Ken
Harkey, Mr. David Brown, and Mr. John Padilla from Flagstaff High School.
These wonderful people have been given the task of molding young minds, and,
as far as I am concerned, have succeded immeasurably. These were my teachers.
These people, among others, have taught me to love science, nature, people,
and History. To these people I owe my eternal gratitude. In my opinion,
teachers should be revered, (and paid more than they currently
receive
A little about myself. I am 15 years old, and a freshman at Flagstaff
High School. I love computers, and I am currently working on a video game
that some of you may one day play. I am an actor and I have done several
plays. I am on the Flag High Speech and Debate Team. I compete in the
Humorous interpretation competition. We are about to compete in a tournament
in which the winners will go to the State Championship in Phoenix AZ. I
am keeping my fingers crossed....
Also, I have my own Web site. Please visit me at http://www.lowell.edu/users/buie/pluto/glover.html
