Scott Swanson
Nancy Adcock wasn’t really sure what was next when she left Sweet Home High School in 1996 and headed for Oregon State University.
A star basketball player at Sweet Home, she’d gotten interested in engineering after meeting her older sister’s boyfriend, who worked at Hewlett-Packard and let her job shadow with him during her senior year. That, and encouragement from science teacher Cheryll Munts prompted her to give engineering a try.
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