Naveed Sekender is an intern in the National Nuclear Security Administration Minority Serving Institution Internship Program stationed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He is stationed at the High Performance Computing Department, where he analyzes data sets for programming language translation. He says the team he is assigned to can ultimately help make supercomputers run more efficiently. Sakender explains that conducting research with supercomputers allows for cutting edge research, like helping discover drugs that will be effective against viruses like COVID-19. Join hosts Michael Holtz and Matthew Underwood in a conversation with Sekender about his internship, how his interest in science was spurred and where he hopes to go from here. To learn more about the NNSA Minority Serving Institution Internship Program, visit https://orise.orau.gov/nnsa-msiip/index.html.