“She’s still thinking like a designer, just applying it in a different way.”
Category: Black Tech
Shout out to Caleb Anderson, the 13-year-old Georgia Tech student studying aerospace engineering
‘I want to help others that may just need nurturing and resources,’ Anderson said.
Decolonise Science wants to bring more scientific terms to African languages
‘There’s no original isiZulu word for dinosaur. Germs are called amagciwane, but there are no separate words for viruses or bacteria.’
Samuel and his electric, solar-powered wooden motorbike
Resourceful is an understatement.
MIT on Jordan Harrod, a PhD researcher using AI to study the brain
‘Since making my YouTube channel, I’ve learned it’s important to give people reasonable expectations about what’s real and what they’re going to encounter in their lives.’
The experiences of Black women in aerospace engineering
40 years separate these two Black women but so much connects them in their lives as aerospace engineer graduates.
Congrats to Vanessa E. Wyche: the first Black female director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center
Wyche is also a strong proponent of innovation and inclusion and STEM education.
5 things to know about IBM’s tech investment in HBCUs
A worthwhile investment.
Find Your Bind is an app for readers to find books written by authors of colour
Naomi Adeniji and Wumi Obi are going places.
Urban Coders Guild are empowering their students to digitally rebuild Tulsa’s Black Wall Street
The non-profit organisation is based in Tulsa, Oklahoma and provides STEM education to middle and high school students from underrepresented communities.
Black women made $0.90 for every $1 a white man in the same tech role made last year
A ~3.45% increase on last year’s figure
A Q&A with Christine Darden, the 40-year NASA engineer
Read this awesome Q&A with one of the greatest Black mathematicians of our time.