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Rosa Parks: First lady of Civil Rights Social Studies
Parks is most well-known for her stand against racial segregation on a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Rosa refused to give up her seat for a white man. She was arrested, charged with and convicted of civil disobedience. But she will always be remembered as the First lady of Civil Rights. -
Grace Hopper: "Amazing Grace" Computer Skills with Applications
Rear Admidral Grace Murrary Hopper was an American computer scientist and a United States Navy Officer. A pioneer in the field, she was one of the 1st programmers of tkhe Harvard Mark I computer. She diveloped the first compiler for a computer programming language. She came up with the idea of machine-independent programming languages, which let to the development of COBOL, one of the first modern programming languages. Nicknamed for her accomplishments "Amazing Grace." -
Louisa May Alcott: Unknown Author for 150 years!? Language Arts
Alcott was the author of Little Women and other known novels. her first ever novel, The Inheritance, written when she was 17, wasnt published until 150 years after she had wrote it. Two researchers found it in a library in 1997. -
Kathleen Howell: I work at NASA! Science
Howell is a flight operations engineer for NASA. Her responsibilities include coordination and facilitation of missions in volving the IKHANA. The IKHANA is a unman aircraft system. Howell says "I cannot believe I work here at NASA." -
Candance Parker: Anyone wanna play ball? P.E./Health
Candace Parker is currently in her third year in the WNBA which is the Womens National Basketball Assosiation. She play for the Los Angeles Sparks of California and also plays in the Euro league in Russia. Parker was selected 1st pick overall in the 2008 WNBA draft by the Los Ageles Sparks and has been with them ever since.
