What Tommy said is good.
I would not take the risk on the academics statement. One thought is to rephrase it to be a positive statement rather then a uncertainty of if you would succeed.
One suggestion is to take a look at their website under their "Do something Great" and try to incorporate...
Being that I worked on that program and saw that it flew here first, I would say that they kept first flight subdued. It may be related to the fact that the work I did was completed 2 years ago.
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As Tschachim mentioned I have used Scilab for doing calculations for NASSP (I had used MATLAB early on but switched over because Scilab is open source). I knew MATLAB had this capability and I believe that Scilab has similar functionality. I am not programming savvy enough to have...