Dorothy Vaughan by Madison LaFollette https://padlet.com/madison_lafollette221/yrxexi6qq8rq36ku Madison LaFollette en-us 2022-04-25 18:15:39 UTC 2022-05-02 17:12:02 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f680.png Early Life madison_lafollette221 https://padlet.com/madison_lafollette221/yrxexi6qq8rq36ku/wish/2160861969 On September 20th, 1910, she was born in Kansas City, MO. When she was 7, her parents moved her family to Morgantown, WV. In 1925, she graduated from Beechurst High School. ]]> 2022-04-27 17:59:06 UTC https://padlet.com/madison_lafollette221/yrxexi6qq8rq36ku/wish/2160861969 A Portrait of Dorothy Vaughan madison_lafollette221 https://padlet.com/madison_lafollette221/yrxexi6qq8rq36ku/wish/2160866239 Dorothy Vaughan was a math teacher at Robert Russa Moton High School in Farmville, VA. Then she left to join the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory.]]> 2022-04-27 18:01:47 UTC https://padlet.com/madison_lafollette221/yrxexi6qq8rq36ku/wish/2160866239 College madison_lafollette221 https://padlet.com/madison_lafollette221/yrxexi6qq8rq36ku/wish/2160866836 After graduating, she attended Wilberforce University in Ohio. There, she received a Bachelor of Science degree. ]]> 2022-04-27 18:02:12 UTC https://padlet.com/madison_lafollette221/yrxexi6qq8rq36ku/wish/2160866836 Handbook for the Computer She Helped Program madison_lafollette221 https://padlet.com/madison_lafollette221/yrxexi6qq8rq36ku/wish/2160867483 She helped code the IBM 7090 that NASA later used to send people into space.]]> 2022-04-27 18:02:37 UTC https://padlet.com/madison_lafollette221/yrxexi6qq8rq36ku/wish/2160867483 NASA madison_lafollette221 https://padlet.com/madison_lafollette221/yrxexi6qq8rq36ku/wish/2160867951 She was employed as a mathematician at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, (an early version of NASA). Dorothy Vaughan was among the first group of African Americans to be hired as mathematicians and scientists. She was assigned to the segregated “West Area Computing” unit, where she was required to use separate dining and restrooms. In 1949, she became the first Black supervisor at NACA when she was promoted to manager of the West Area Computers.]]> 2022-04-27 18:02:55 UTC https://padlet.com/madison_lafollette221/yrxexi6qq8rq36ku/wish/2160867951 The Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory in 1930 madison_lafollette221 https://padlet.com/madison_lafollette221/yrxexi6qq8rq36ku/wish/2160868462 This is where the Human Computers would have worked in Langley, WV.]]> 2022-04-27 18:03:14 UTC https://padlet.com/madison_lafollette221/yrxexi6qq8rq36ku/wish/2160868462 After FORTRAN madison_lafollette221 https://padlet.com/madison_lafollette221/yrxexi6qq8rq36ku/wish/2160869508 She never received another management position at NASA. She retired in 1971. During the last 10 years of her career, Vaughan worked with fellow NASA mathematicians Katherine G. Johnson and Mary Jackson on the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. ]]> 2022-04-27 18:03:54 UTC https://padlet.com/madison_lafollette221/yrxexi6qq8rq36ku/wish/2160869508 IBM Machine madison_lafollette221 https://padlet.com/madison_lafollette221/yrxexi6qq8rq36ku/wish/2160883013 In 1958, NACA became the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. She joined the new Analysis and Computation Division, and became an expert FORTRAN programmer. ]]> 2022-04-27 18:12:29 UTC https://padlet.com/madison_lafollette221/yrxexi6qq8rq36ku/wish/2160883013 Dorothy Vaughan in later years madison_lafollette221 https://padlet.com/madison_lafollette221/yrxexi6qq8rq36ku/wish/2160884407 Dorothy Vaughan worked for NASA from 1943 to 1971.]]> 2022-04-27 18:13:21 UTC https://padlet.com/madison_lafollette221/yrxexi6qq8rq36ku/wish/2160884407 Dorothy Vaughan's Grave madison_lafollette221 https://padlet.com/madison_lafollette221/yrxexi6qq8rq36ku/wish/2160884761 She died on November 10th, 2008.]]> 2022-04-27 18:13:34 UTC https://padlet.com/madison_lafollette221/yrxexi6qq8rq36ku/wish/2160884761 Sources madison_lafollette221 https://padlet.com/madison_lafollette221/yrxexi6qq8rq36ku/wish/2166924610 2022-05-02 15:15:22 UTC https://padlet.com/madison_lafollette221/yrxexi6qq8rq36ku/wish/2166924610 madison_lafollette221 https://padlet.com/madison_lafollette221/yrxexi6qq8rq36ku/wish/2166925917 2022-05-02 15:16:14 UTC https://padlet.com/madison_lafollette221/yrxexi6qq8rq36ku/wish/2166925917 madison_lafollette221 https://padlet.com/madison_lafollette221/yrxexi6qq8rq36ku/wish/2166927231 2022-05-02 15:17:02 UTC https://padlet.com/madison_lafollette221/yrxexi6qq8rq36ku/wish/2166927231 madison_lafollette221 https://padlet.com/madison_lafollette221/yrxexi6qq8rq36ku/wish/2166928515 2022-05-02 15:17:51 UTC https://padlet.com/madison_lafollette221/yrxexi6qq8rq36ku/wish/2166928515