Black History_Katherine Johnson NASA by Miles West https://padlet.com/24milesw520/kcgfsk7g0buc en-us 2017-01-12 19:27:07 UTC 2023-11-23 09:21:22 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padletuploads.blob.core.windows.net/prod/163210298/791d0d00070a484579539f66ae87bafe/jazz.gif 24milesw520 https://padlet.com/24milesw520/kcgfsk7g0buc/wish/149741859 BORN: August 26, 1918 age 98 years]]> 2017-01-26 19:48:13 UTC https://padlet.com/24milesw520/kcgfsk7g0buc/wish/149741859 Education:West vrginia state university 24milesw520 https://padlet.com/24milesw520/kcgfsk7g0buc/wish/149742810 2017-01-26 19:50:58 UTC https://padlet.com/24milesw520/kcgfsk7g0buc/wish/149742810 Award:Presidential medal of freedom 24milesw520 https://padlet.com/24milesw520/kcgfsk7g0buc/wish/149745719 2017-01-26 19:59:08 UTC https://padlet.com/24milesw520/kcgfsk7g0buc/wish/149745719 24milesw520 https://padlet.com/24milesw520/kcgfsk7g0buc/wish/149746999 Since 1981, NASA space shuttles have been rocketing from the Florida coast into Earth orbit. The five orbiters — Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and than all of that, though, the shuttle program expanded the limits of human achievement and broadened our understanding of our world.]]> 2017-01-26 20:03:38 UTC https://padlet.com/24milesw520/kcgfsk7g0buc/wish/149746999 24milesw520 https://padlet.com/24milesw520/kcgfsk7g0buc/wish/151271958 Being handpicked to be one of three black students to integrate West Virginia’s graduate schools is something that many people would consider one of their life’s most notable moments, but it’s just one of several breakthroughs that have marked Katherine Johnson’s long and remarkable life. Born in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia in 1918, Katherine Johnson’s intense curiosity and brilliance with numbers vaulted her ahead several grades in school. By thirteen, she was attending the high school on the campus of historically black West Virginia State College. At eighteen, she enrolled in the college itself, where she made quick work of the school’s math curriculum and found a mentor in math professor W. W. Schieffelin Claytor, the third African American to earn a PhD in Mathematics. Katherine graduated with highest honors in 1937 and took a job teaching at a black public school in Virginia]]> 2017-02-02 19:32:14 UTC https://padlet.com/24milesw520/kcgfsk7g0buc/wish/151271958 24milesw520 https://padlet.com/24milesw520/kcgfsk7g0buc/wish/151276488 2017-02-02 19:45:36 UTC https://padlet.com/24milesw520/kcgfsk7g0buc/wish/151276488 24milesw520 https://padlet.com/24milesw520/kcgfsk7g0buc/wish/151276882 2017-02-02 19:46:55 UTC https://padlet.com/24milesw520/kcgfsk7g0buc/wish/151276882 Since 1981, NASA space shuttles have been rocketing from the Florida coast into Earth orbit. The five orbiters — Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour — have flown more than 130 times, carrying over 350 people into space and travelling more than half a billion miles, more than enough to reach Jupiter. Designed to return to Earth and land like a giant glider, the shuttle was the world's first reusable space vehicle. More than all of that, though, the shuttle program expanded the limits of human achievement and broadened our understanding of our world. 24milesw520 https://padlet.com/24milesw520/kcgfsk7g0buc/wish/151280019 2017-02-02 19:56:13 UTC https://padlet.com/24milesw520/kcgfsk7g0buc/wish/151280019 24milesw520 https://padlet.com/24milesw520/kcgfsk7g0buc/wish/151280485 2017-02-02 19:57:16 UTC https://padlet.com/24milesw520/kcgfsk7g0buc/wish/151280485 24milesw520 https://padlet.com/24milesw520/kcgfsk7g0buc/wish/154441426 https://www.emaze.com/@ATFOICLT/katherine]]> 2017-02-16 19:38:02 UTC https://padlet.com/24milesw520/kcgfsk7g0buc/wish/154441426