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Skip to the Loo

Posted on March 2, 2020 by The Numerate Ninny

Finally! I watched the movie Hidden Figures (and enjoyed it). However, seeing Katherine Johnson’s routine twenty-minute dash from her desk to the ‘Colored Ladies Room’, triggered a conversation about my own ‘Ladies’ experiences at the beginning of my career. My first assignment was at… Continue Reading “Skip to the Loo”

Category: Engineering, gender bias, mathematics, UncategorizedTags: #stemgirls, Engineering, engineeringgirls, Fire Engineering, Hidden Figures, Mechanical Engineering, STEM, Stemettes, steminist, Women in Engineering, Women in STEM, womenshistory, Womensrights, working women, Workplace

The Two-Year-Old Engineer

Posted on July 16, 2019 by The Numerate Ninny

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Recently, I had the privilege of watching my 2½ year-old grandniece, Penny Rose, at play. Deeply engaged with a Thomas the Tank Engine Lego set, she connected the brick with Thomas’s face to a foundation brick. She then tried to place a piece of… Continue Reading “The Two-Year-Old Engineer”

Category: Engineering, mathematics, UncategorizedTags: #stemgirls, Engineering, Fire Engineering, Lego, Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics, Physics, Science, Spatial Reasoning, STEM, Stemettes, Thomas the Tank Engine, Women in Engineering, Women in STEM, womenshistory, Womensrights

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