In summer 2016, I worked and learned through the NASA "Engage & Inspire" program at the Student Engineering Research and Nanotechnology Laboratory (SERNL) of Montgomery County Community College. Funded through the Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium, we were mentored by Swiss engineer Jean-Jacques Reymond and completed several world firsts in submersible electronics, focusing on hydrophobic polymers like "Gentoo". We spent painstaking hours and days coating plates and measuring the effects of different coatings on droplets. These measurements were succeeded by coating exposed electronic components in the polymers and them submerging the active electrical components in water. While in the program, we set several records for active electronics exposed subsurface, with several components within "Gentoo" polymer lasting over 24 hours. Our findings were eventually used to expand the polymer's use from commercial waterproofing to avionics protection for the United States Navy. I look back on this as a formative summer as a research student learning more about nanotechnology in a lab setting.