Significant Figures

“Code Liberation catalyzes the creation of digital games and creative technologies by women, nonbinary, femme, and girl-identifying people to diversify STEAM fields.” - Catt Small. She noticed that women were in the minority in the gaming industry and took steps to change that. In Catt Small's TedTalk, she speaks of challenges while developing a game. This video gives reassurance to those who feel like they're the only ones who go through obstacles, on the way to success but it's normal for that to happen.

Catt Small, Being Sucessfull In Making Games

Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson

Three African American women who acted human computers and played an important role in launching USA’s first manned rocket, Freedom 7 into space.

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Kate Gleason

At age 19, Kate Gleason became the first woman engineering student to enroll in the Mechanical Arts program at Cornell University, but her father's shop in Rochester soon came upon hard times. She was called home and never was able to return to complete the requirements for a degree. However, through training and self-learning she earned the title of engineer and is recognized for her considerable accomplishments. Some of her education came from courses at the Sibley College of Engraving and the Mechanics Institute, which became Rochester Institute of Technology.

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Evelyn Wang

Evelyn Wang is transforming the engineering curriculum by implementing new educational models and grand research challenges that will impact the way mechanical engineering is being taught not only at MIT but also in other universities.

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