AdaLovelace Day 2023
Ada Lovelace Day is an international day celebrating the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering, and maths.
Why must we celebrate women in STEM (science, tech, engineering, and maths)?
It’s incontrovertible that fewer women than men are in the STEAM field.
The reasons for this inequality are many, spanning issues such as social pressure on girls and women to pursue "suitable" careers, subtle misogyny in higher education and the workplace, and a lack of support for women who wish to have a family or re-skill when re-entering the workforce after having a family. These are complex problems that we all need to work to understand and address, but there is one key issue that we can focus on quite easily: the importance of role models
Ada Lovelace Day aims to address this problem by encouraging people to shine a light on the women in STEM they admire. By talking about women in these fields, we aim to raise their and every woman's profiles.
You can start learning this trivia, made specially for this day <3.
Ada Lovelace's plans to calculate the Bernoulli Numbers are considered to be the first
Ada Lovelace predicted that computers in the future would be used for what?
Ada Lovelace rewrote and added ideas to a book about what invention?
Ada Lovelace was…
Who’s Maryam Mirzakhani?
Who said: “it's never too late to learn about IT and finance”?
Who’s the first woman to edit the journal Icarus, founded by Carl Sagan, a reference point in planetary sciences ?
Who’s behind the first black hole image?
Who was known as the “human computer”?
Besides being a nun, writer (writing influent in Latin and native Nahuatl ), philosopher and poet of the Baroque period, which other contributions Mexican Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz left as her legacy?
Where was Evelyn Rodriguez Miralles, engineer who works at the Virtual Reality Laboratory at NASA furthering human spaceflight by training United States Astronauts to perform spacewalks and working outside a spacecraft in micro-gravity, born?
Vivian Miranda, born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, as Vinicius Miranda, has come a long way to occupy what role today?
Who is the puerto rican woman, highest-ranking Hispanic at NASA Glenn Research Center, and a member of the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame, awarded with NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal (2002), NASA Exceptional Service Medal (1993), Women of Color in Technology Career Achievement Award (2000), and an R&D 100 Award (1988)?
Who is the first Hispanic woman to go to space, granddaughter of immigrant grandparents from Sonora, Mexico? In 1993, she became the first Hispanic woman to go to space when she served on a nine-day mission aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery. She was the first Hispanic director and the second female director of Johnson Space Center.
Who was the first German to be a professional air pilot, the first German woman aerial acrobat, an exhibition parachute jumper, and the inventor of the first collapsible parachute?
Who earned the nickname “The Sun Queen” after developing the first house heated exclusively with solar power, the Dover Sun House, which she completed in 1948, together with architect Eleanor Raymond?
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