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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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An account of the previously unheralded but pivotal contributions of NASA's African-American women mathematicians to America's space program describes how they were segregated from their white counterparts by Jim Crow laws in spite of their groundbreaking successes.
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
Traces the pivotal achievements of the elite female science recruits at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where in the mid-twentieth century they transformed rocket design and enabled the creation of the first American satellites.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
The woman at the heart of the bestseller and Oscar-winning film "Hidden Figures" shares her personal journey from child prodigy in the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia to NASA human computer and her integral role in the early years of the U.S. space program.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Español
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
An account of the previously unheralded contributions of NASA's African-American women mathematicians to America's space program describes how they were segregated from their white counterparts by Jim Crow laws in spite of their successes.
Author
Series
Rebel girls (Chapter books) volume 2
Publisher
Timbuktu Labs
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Presents a fictionalized account of the life of Ada Lovelace, one of the world's first computer programmers.
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