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#FridayFacts
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#tbt – Chien-Shiung Wu
#tbt 🔬 Chien-Shiung Wu was a Chinese-American physicist who provided the first experimental proof that parity is not conserved in weak subatomic interactions of nuclear beta decay.
#WCW – Jessica Matthews
#WCW 🔬 Jessica O. Matthews is the Founder and CEO of Uncharted Play, an energy company designing renewable energy technology systems for infrastructure and smart applications. 🔬⚽ Uncharted Play’s flagship product,…
#TechTuesday – Karlie Kloss
#TechTuesday 🔬💻 “Kode With Klossy empowers girls to learn to code and become leaders in tech. Founded in 2015 when Karlie Kloss began learning to code, Kode With Klossy hosts coding summer camps…
#MathMondays
#MathMondays with a fact about the Fibonacci sequence appearing in nature!
Nichelle Nichols
Nichelle Nichols is an African-American actress who starred as Lieutenant Uhura on Star Trek. She later recorded albums, wrote a memoir and science-fiction novels, and was an ambassador for NASA…
#TBT – Mary Golda Ross
#tbt honoring Mary Golda Ross 🔬🚀 “I was brought up in the Cherokee tradition of equal education for boys and girls.” 🔬🚀 Mary Golda Ross was the first Native-American engineer, with…
#TechTuesday – Ayah Bdeir
Ayah Bdeir is the creator of littleBits, which makes learning about electronics fun with preassembled, modular circuit. Ayah was interested in combining the arts with STEM and is passionate about encouraging…
Meet Gertrude B. Elion
Gertrude B. Elion was an American pharmacologist who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1988 for the development of drugs used to treat several major diseases. Elion…
#SpaceSunday – Mae Jemison
#spacesunday with Mae Jemison 🔬🚀 “Don’t let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do…