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Translator Interviews

Name

Age

High School

Year in School

How did you find out about this job?

Tell me about your family

Do you live with your mother and father?
Do you parents speak English well?
How many siblings do you have? Are you the oldest or the youngest?
What kind of family responsibilities do you have at home?
What does your mother, father, older siblings or aunts and uncles do for a living?
What year in school did they finish?
What is your families attitude towards school? Do they think it's more important or less important than you do?

How do you feel about school?

How do you feel about your teachers? Are they cool, uncool, friends or enemies?

What is your favorite class?

What is your least favorite class?

How do you feel about your math classes?


How do you feel about your science classes?


What kind of grades do you get in school?

What kind of grades do you get in math and science?

Where is your family from? Do you visit/know your relatives there?


Where were you born?

How old were you when you learned English?

Do you think of yourself as Hispanic/Chicano/Mexican? Another word?

Do you think it's a good thing to be bilingual?


What did you know about Astronomy before you started this program?

Did you study astronomy in school?

Did you think it was interesting?

Did you know anything about radio astronomy?

Who do you know who works at NRAO?

What did you know about NRAO before you started this program?

Had you been to the VLA before? To the AOC? Had you seen the movie "Contact"?

Had you visited any other astronomical observatories?

What kind of a job do you want/expect when you grow up?

If you could wave a magic wand and have any knowledge and any schooling, what would you like to be when you grow up?

Do you want to go to college?
Which college?
Community college, NM Tech, UNM Albuquerque, NM State (Las Cruces), out of state.

When you finish high school or college do you want to stay in Socorro?
In New Mexico? Where do you want to go? Will you miss your family?

What's the question I didn't ask, but should have?


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