Black History Month

Who was the first woman in any field to earn a doctorate from MIT?

• Kamala Harris

• Kimberly Bryant

• Shirley Ann Jackson

• Valerie Thomas

Guion Bluford Jr. was the first African-American man to....

• go skydiving

• travel into space

• become an IBM Fellow

• graduate from Harvard

Kimberly Bryant founded Black Girls Code, a non-profit that introduces girls from underrepresented communities to computer programming

• True

• False

Who was a NASA mathematician, and the focus of the film Hidden Figures

• Katherine Johnson

• Amanda Spann

• Oprah Winfrey

• Kerry Washington

Amanda Spann used her knowledge of coding to

• Create a foundation for modern video games, web design, animation and graphics

• Join IBM in 1956 and design software as a computer programmer

• Create a designer dress with Tyra Banks

• Create the App Accelerator, a program that helps businesses with no technical training build their own apps

Mark Dean is an inventor and computer engineer who helped create the color computer monitor (screen)

• True

• False

What does the acronym HBCU stand for?

• Historically Black Colleges and Unicycles

• Historical Brownie Cupcakes

• Historically Black Colleges and Universities

• History Because of You

The Top 5 HBCUs With The Best STEM Programs are North Carolina A&T, Morgan State University, Hampton University, Howard University, and Florida A&M.

• True

• False

HBCU's are colleges and universities that only African-Americans can attend.

• True- HBCUs allow segregation

• False- HBCUs do not allow segregation, but were created to be America’s First Representation of Diversity and Inclusion

Which of the following is an HBCU in Charlotte, NC?

• Johnson C. Smith University

• Hampton University

• North Carolina A&T

• UNCC