- Are you curious about careers in science?

Hi, I'm Janellyn.

And today, I'm with professional skydiving instructor Erendira Sanchez Gonzalez.

Erendira, tell me where you are and what you do.

- I'm in Houston at Skydive Spaceland.

I'm a skydiving instructor.

- How is STEM incorporated into your job?

- It's really important to know the science about the winds and understand that for you have a good skydive.

When we jump out from the plane, normally we have the airplane flying in this direction and then we use the wind, the relative wind, we use that wind for jumping out and we gonna have some acceleration from freefall.

What position you have when you jump out is how fast you're gonna fall in freefall.

Normally, in tandem, when we jump with someone we are falling in one minute, 120 miles per hour.

- Tell me what a career in skydiving is like.

- Being instructor is fun.

You are teaching how to skydive to another people.

They are learning new skills about how to feel the air in the sky.

How to fly a parachute.

- I heard you've done more skydive jumps than any other woman in Mexico.

- That's right.

I have 15,000 skydive.

Have you ever skydive?

- I have not skydived before but I would love to.

It would be very exciting.

What is your advice to kids who are interested in a career like yours?

- As soon as you have 18, you can come skydive for the first time.

If you like it, you can keep going.

You can start packing the parachute.

Then you have like a progression.

Just keep going with any dream do you have.

- Erendira Sanchez Gonzalez and I dove right into the science of skydiving.

Explore your possibilities!