Topics: Hopi & Dine , Semiconductor design, STEM, Indigenous women in the semiconductor and computer science
Title : Dine & Hopi Women: Semiconductor Weavers
Participants: Vanesha Honani and Nicholas Rajen
Publish Date: 09/07/2022
Homepage : http://www.dreport.org
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Conversation Topics:
What does a QA engineer do?
What is the Fairchild plant project story?
Native and indigenous community were naturally engineers?
What is the story of Hopi women in Semiconductor manufacturing?
Who is Richard Feynman?
Where is California Indian Nations College?
What is the relationship between semiconductor circuitry design and Navajo tapestry design?
What are the different narratives about our respective communities?
Have the STEM fields always been considered spaces for white men only?
What is the story of indigenous women in the semiconductor and computer science field?
How many Native Americans participate in coding?
How do we incorporate our community traditions into our professional spaces?
How has the semiconductor shaped our current reality?
What are the roles of women in STEM?
Women have been left out of recognition from the great discoveries?
What is Rosalind Franklin relation to discovery of DNA Molecule?
Emmy Noether mathematician
What is role of the semiconductor in our lives?
How did a Fairchild’s semiconductor factory end up in the Navajo reservation?
What is the relationship between the Hopi weaving design and the final semiconductor design?
How do we connect the history of colonialism, Native communities, and the Fairchild’s semiconductor factory placement on a reservation to employ native women?
Why did Hewlett Packard (HP) follow the Fairchild project of establishing manufacturing plants Hopi and Navajo land?
Why do we need to understand the history of colonialism to understand why the Fairchild semiconductor plant was built on a Native American reservation?
Were the semiconductor engineers inspired by the native American sand paintings?
Why are the resources of Hopi and Navajo nations quantified and targeted by corporations?
Did the semiconductor circuit design copy the Navajo rug design?
When did the American Indian Movement take over the Fairchild semiconductor plant?