Happy Women and Girls in Science Day!  

I have an extra story for you this week about Katherine Johnson, NASA research mathematician.   Her calculations allowed astronauts to enter space for the first time, walk the moon for the first time and get home safely when things went wrong.  She was a brilliant woman with many "firsts" and we are celebrating her on Women and Girls in Science Day during Black History Month.  

This video includes soft-spoken storytelling, occasional close whispers, soft tapping, lid sounds, mic brushing with makeup brushes, and hairbrush bristle clicking.  

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Resources to Support Women and Girls in STEM: 

https://www.teachthought.com/technolo...​ 

https://edventures.com/blogs/stempowe...​ 

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Sources:  

Fox, Margalit. “Katherine Johnson Dies at 101; Mathematician Broke Barriers at NASA.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 24 Feb. 2020, www.nytimes.com/2020/02/24/science/katherine-johnson-dead.html.   

Gates, Henry Louis, and Robert F Smith. “Black History In Two Minutes ‘Katherine Johnson.’” Season 3, episode 31, 27 Mar. 2020.   Episode for the podcast, Black History In Two Minutes (or so) originally was released on March 27, 2020.  

Johnson, Katherine. Reaching For The Moon: the Autobiography of Nasa Mathematician Katherine Johnson. ATHENEUM CHILDREN'S Books, 2020.   

Lewis, Russell. “Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician And An Inspiration For 'Hidden Figures,' Dies.” NPR, NPR, 24 Feb. 2020, www.npr.org/2020/02/24/517784975/katherine-johnson-nasa-mathematician-and-an-inspiration-for-hidden-figures-dies.   

Stauss, Joanna. “Katherine Johnson: Pioneering NASA Mathematician.” Space.com, Space, 27 Feb. 2020, www.space.com/katherine-johnson.html.   

Wild, Flint. “Who Was Katherine Johnson?” NASA, NASA, 30 Dec. 2016, www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/stories/nasa-knows/who-was-katherine-johnson-k4.