As a mechanical engineer, Rita loves the design and construction side of engineering. Yet, joining the MIT Robotics Team, she decided to branch out into electronics since it was a field she was itching to explore. Hailing from Maryland, Rita has also lived abroad in Dubai, UAE and Morocco. Outside of the team, Rita spends most of her free time working on her racecar, playing guitar, and horseback riding. This past summer, Rita worked as a car mechanic at Elite Automotive of Potomac where she built a drift car and a 1967 Shelby Cobra kit car. Prior to MIT, she interned in the propulsion subsystems branch at NASA Goddard where she developed an internal branch wiki and sported her very own clean room bunny suit while testing tanks for the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission satellite.