The 14-Year-Old Girl Rocket Scientist Who’s Aiming For Mars | TODAY

As our “Girls Changing the World” series continues, TODAY’s Savannah Guthrie spotlights budding scientist Eleanor Sigrest, who at the age of 14 has already won a national prize with a project about rockets, but has her sights set much higher – she wants to visit Mars.

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[martitirinnanzi]

"Just another woman changing the world." Really great to see Savannah focus on this. So much of our media is geared to telling women about how they should make themselves physically attractive. Beautiful women are SMART women, CURIOUS, ACHIEVEMENT oriented, who want to MAKE A DIFFERENCE! Bravo Eleanor!

[chrisaker]

Amazing young woman!!!! Never give up. You will find the stars....

[kapkap]

Eleanor is 14 years old And he is in 9th grade (freshman year of high school)

[Rohrbach]

I've watched this a few times knowing that I went to the same high school as her (I just graduated this past May), not to mention I've seen her in the hallway. Although I never talked to her or made friends with her since I was an older kid on campus, I looked at her every time she would walk past me knowing that she was famous for this

[papan]

Bravo girl. I need to her for my organization. Keep your chin up beautiful.

[mira]

She's the same age as me, I was 14 too in 2017 and I looked up to her so much then

[idropgp]

She'll have a 0% chance of survival if she were to actually go on mars

[candycolriv]

Awesome ! A young kid with aspirations that don't involve youtube 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[Alex-bhyk]

Lol she was in my home room class sophomore year 😂😂

[bingbung]

Why cant you also encourage boys to change the world? Wtf we are struggling in school, thanks for the support

[CyberRacer]

Heh just ordinary to me, i mean anyone can say the rockets have a nozzle and it combusts and it launches, there is still alot to it, and many people have aims like that. she is a nerd probably in school all day, she goes to school, robotic classes, russian classes, etc no fun time ? No life ???? Any ways by the time she becomes 20 mars would have already been discovered

[relentlessracing]

So y'all LIED. Rocket Scientist would need at least a bachelor's in aerospace engineering. So yeah. Good lie on your headline. Even sadder to know she is completely wasting her time dreaming of space luck getting through God's berrier.