Kenth Santibanez Rivera
2019-2021 Scholar
Kenth was born in the small country of El Salvador. His family moved to Texas when he was 13 years old. Immediately after high school, he joined the U.S. Navy and served for 4 years as an Aviation Structural Mechanic working on the maintenance of BlackHawk helicopters. Currently a junior majoring in Aerospace Engineering and working part-time under the Pathways Employment Internship program at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center where (fingers crossed), he hopes to work as an engineer there after graduation. At NASA he has worked for the ExoCube2 and PetitSat Missions assisting in the building and testing of mass spectrometers to be used as space science instruments. Kenth is a husband and father of two children, and his family is the reason and motivation to become an engineer who they can all be proud of.