We have completed our
Black History Month Information Treasure Hunt for 2025. This year we focused on three African American women who worked as computers for NASA's space flight programs. Early rocket experiments and missions to the moon and beyond wouldn’t have been possible without a team known as the "human computers.” They computed and planned flight paths for spacecraft based on the vehicle weight, lift capacity of the rocket, and the orbital dynamics of the planets. We learned about three African American computers named Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson.
Ask your student about these "Hidden Figures" of the early space programs of NASA to learn more, click on the following links:
YouTube Video |
Hidden Figures |
Blog Article
A special thank you goes out to parent
Eric Leslie for once again helping to make it all happen and to the
Friends of MLK whose generous support allowed us to purchase prizes for winning entries, to all of our teachers for facilitating student participation, and to the students for their enthusiasm and excitement.
Pictured: Students busy looking for clues and filling out their Information Treasure Hunt Forms.