Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day: Meet Paromita Mitra

Where did Paromita Mitra migrate from?

• Bangladesh

• Mississippi

• NASA

• Marshall Space Flight Center

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What career path did Paromita Mitra initially want to pursue?

• Medicine

• Engineering

• Astronomy

• Pageantry

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What inspired Paromita Mitra to consider a career in engineering?

• Her high school physics teacher

• Her father's footsteps

• Mississippi State University

• NASA's Office of STEM Engagement

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What did Paromita Mitra leverage her platform in pageants to focus on?

• Encouraging young people to pursue a path in STEM

• Promoting her pageant titles

• Advocating for women's rights

• Supporting medical research

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What title did Paromita Mitra hold when she attended Mississippi State University?

• Miss Teen Mississippi 2009

• Miss Maroon and White 2011

• Miss Mississippi USA 2013

• Mississippi State University Graduate

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Who was the strong female aerospace engineer mentor that encouraged Paromita Mitra to pursue a career with NASA?

• Carrie Olsen

• Chase Neal

• Brian Dunbar

• Michelle Zajac

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What was the focus of Paromita Mitra's research during her graduate school?

• Heads-up displays on spacesuits

• Guidance, Navigation and Mission Analysis

• NASA S.U.I.T.S Design Challenge

• Human Interface engineering

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Where is Paromita Mitra currently working as a Human Interface engineer?

• NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center

• NASA's Johnson Space Center

• Mississippi State University

• Bangladesh

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What does Paromita Mitra credit her achievements to?

• Her education in a STEM field

• Her past experiences with pageants

• Her strong female mentors

• All of the above

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What does Paromita Mitra want all girls considering a career in engineering to remember?

• To work hard and seek out mentors

• To be confident in their own intellect

• To see themselves in the career they want to pursue

• All of the above

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