Papua New Guinea (PNG), in the southwestern Pacific, is best known for its dense rainforest, coral reefs and the Kokoda Trail. It's likely not somewhere you'd expect a university student to be keen to do his industry experience.
University of Sydney PhD biomedical engineering candidate, Seamus Thomson secured a 10-week internship with NASA's Ames Research in California in 2016 and was asked to continue for a further year after he impressed the team.