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-I am currently involved with the Santa Barbara Hackerspace.
-We were donated one of your robots and I have been greatly enjoying the process of restoring
-the robot to a working condition. I believe that my previous experience in building advanced \cpp \space applications,
-as well as my prior experience building and producing hardware/software systems,
-will strongly relate to helping advance the work InTouch is doing.
-Constantly learning and pushing my knowledge of new technical skills is important to me,
-and it looks like this position, and working with the InTouch team would allow me to do just that.
-I feel that the combination of my skills, as well as my desire and ability to quickly learn new skills,
-could make me be a valuable asset to your team and help build better medical robots in the future.
+Since I am coming to professional education through
+a non-traditional route, I am not currently certificated. However,
+I am currently finding my way through the process. For the
+past 3.5 years, Gideon Hausner, a jewish day school for K-8 students
+has employed me. During that time, I have built relationships with
+students, parents, teachers and faculty.