Never doubt your mom on any sort of project cause what she did for me is great. I was really scared when Mrs. Edwards said that we had to schedule our interview I got so scared because I did not have one. When I came home that day I said mom we need to have a long talk. Once we got into a private place I told her what the problem was then she came up with such a great idea and that was to interview my relative Alex Novoselov. When she came up with that a huge sigh of relief.

On May 18, 2017 I interviewed Alex Novoselov, who’s a graduate student from Princeton University School of Engineering. This interview was related to my capstone project, about Robotic. I am 5th grade student, and this is my first experience in interviewing people. I was a little bit nervous in the beginning , even though that Alex is my distant relative. As it turned out, he’d experience robotic and told me a lot of interesting things about robotics.

I started the interview by asking my first question, and told him that I have set of questions that I need to ask him to complete my interview.

He gave me really good answers that helped me in my research such as a new software that is used for robots that I was looking for and could not find so thanks to him I found the missing piece to my research. We also had a few laughs a long the way. At first I was really nervous because I thought he would be very angry and grumpy but he really was not and was very nice. I did not expect him to give good answers because he hesitated when I asked could you answer questions about robotics.

These are the questions I asked Alex:

1. What is the first thing you would teach someone about robots?
2. What kind of robotics do they teach at princeton?
3. What programs are your personal favorite programs to use?
4. Tell me about the first ever robot you ever built?
   1. How did you start?
5. What is your favorite robot currently and why?
6. What is one story that stands out to you about building a robot?
   1. Could be a challenging time
   2. Could be the first robot
   3. Could be a funny story
7. What is the difference between robot coding languages?
   1. Are they all programmed the same way?
8. How do you put the code/program into a robot?
9. Do you think robots will alway rely on human input, or will them eventually be able to develop their own code?
10. Have you ever heard of the code NAOqi OS?
    1. Can you explain it to me in simple terms?
11. How do you think robotics will develop in the future?
12. What did you do at MakerBot?
    1. did it prepare you for your time at Princeton?
13. Between industrial robots (robots like those that put together cars) and personal robots (like a Roomba), which do you think are more important to society?
14. What is the most important thing to know about robotics?
15. Anytime else to add?

Overall, I expect that this interview will really help me complete my project, specifically in the areas of style, tone, and use of specialized vocabulary. Alex was able to point me towards other resources I will be able to use to research, as well as he taught me a lot of interesting things about robotics.

This the person I interviewed below.