https://padlet.com/shannonl_2021/70m8iwhwpddy By Shannon Lee en-us 2017-12-06 19:05:16 UTC 2025-03-22 04:12:20 UTC hello@padlet.com shannonl_2021 https://padlet.com/shannonl_2021/70m8iwhwpddy/wish/213867527 The explorer]]> 2017-12-06 19:06:13 UTC https://padlet.com/shannonl_2021/70m8iwhwpddy/wish/213867527 shannonl_2021 https://padlet.com/shannonl_2021/70m8iwhwpddy/wish/213872056 Dorothy Vaughan was born in Kansas City, Missouri on September 20, 1910. As a child, she showed special skill in arithmetic. When Dorothy was seven years old, she and the rest of her family moved to Morgantown, West Virginia. Her parents' names are Leonard and Ann Johnson.]]> 2017-12-06 19:14:39 UTC https://padlet.com/shannonl_2021/70m8iwhwpddy/wish/213872056 shannonl_2021 https://padlet.com/shannonl_2021/70m8iwhwpddy/wish/213879778 Dorothy Vaughan started college in 1924, and got a B.A., in Mathematics, Wilberforce University, 1929. She married Howard S. Vaughan Jr. in 1932. Before she left to work at NACA (now known as NASA), she would have to leave her job as a math teacher at Robert Russa Moton High School in Farmville VA because she believed that it would be a temporary war job.She was hired by NACA in 1943, and was promoted to a permanent job at NASA as the supervisor of west computing. retired from NACA in 1971. Dorothy Vaughan died on November 10, 2008 at the age of 98.]]> 2017-12-06 19:29:59 UTC https://padlet.com/shannonl_2021/70m8iwhwpddy/wish/213879778 shannonl_2021 https://padlet.com/shannonl_2021/70m8iwhwpddy/wish/214312568 Dorothy married Howard S. Vaughan in 1932. While she was working at Langley, she had to prepare for the introduction of machine computers (the IBM's) in the early 1960's and taught herself and her staff how to program. Dorothy Vaughan came to work at NACA because there weren't enough men there at the time. Most of them had left to fight in the war. Dorothy Vaughan had 4 kids named Kenneth H. Vaughan, Leonard S. Vaughan, Maida Kathryn Cobbins, and Ann V. Hammond.]]> 2017-12-07 20:04:04 UTC https://padlet.com/shannonl_2021/70m8iwhwpddy/wish/214312568 shannonl_2021 https://padlet.com/shannonl_2021/70m8iwhwpddy/wish/214312688 Dorothy Vaughan excelled at mathematics and went to college at age 14. She was hired by Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory in 1943 during World War II and worked in the West Computing area with other African-American women --she even has  a book, and a movie about her and her female African-American colleagues. ]]> 2017-12-07 20:04:21 UTC https://padlet.com/shannonl_2021/70m8iwhwpddy/wish/214312688 shannonl_2021 https://padlet.com/shannonl_2021/70m8iwhwpddy/wish/214312784 Dorothy Vaughan became the first African-American supervisor at NASA. There was more respect for African-Americans after the first American was launched into space because Dorothy, Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, and all of the other women had a huge part in the success of the launch.]]> 2017-12-07 20:04:33 UTC https://padlet.com/shannonl_2021/70m8iwhwpddy/wish/214312784 shannonl_2021 https://padlet.com/shannonl_2021/70m8iwhwpddy/wish/215196032 www.nasa.gov
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