“Benjamin Cichy’s tweet from 2019 is really motivating and is becoming popular these days on social media platform which says, “Got a 2.4 GPA my first semester in college. Thought maybe I wasn’t cut out for engineering. Today I’ve landing two spacecraft on Mars, and designing one for the moon. u00a0. STEM is hard for everyone. Grades ultimately arenu2019t what matters. Curiosity and persistence matter.”. Currently according to his LinkedIn account, he is a Principal Systems Architect for Blue Origin. Ben Cichy done Bachelor’s and Master’s in Computer Science from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and also holds a Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Ben held multiple lead systems and software engineering positions at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and The Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He was the Mission System Engineer at Goddard for the Asteroid Redirect Robotic Mission, the Project System Engineer for the Mars 2020 mission through Mission Concept Review, the Chief Software Engineer on the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission, and an Entry Descent and Landing Systems Engineer on the Phoenix Mars lander. For his work Ben has been awarded two NASA Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medals, a NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal, and multiple NASA Group Achievement Awards. u00a0. u00a0. In his recent Twitter thread, he shared his thoughts-.”