By: Allison Kronberg
Johanna Lucht was born deaf and didn’t know a true language until she was 9 years old.
But after those early years of frustration, the University of Minnesota computer science and engineering senior eventually landed an internship at NASA, developing a collision-avoidance mobile application for pilots at the Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, Calif., this summer.
Lucht was born in Germany, where her father worked for the United States government.