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WorksheetsBlack History Month Tech Quiz
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
This African American programmer was instrumental in the development of COBOL, one of the first programming languages.
Mark E. Dean
Robert N. Taylor
Grace Murray Hopper
Edwin Catmull
Graduate of Tuskegee University, this inventor, aerospace engineer and entrepreneur did a 12 year stint at NASA in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His most notable invention was the Super Soaker Water Gun
Lonnie G. Johnson
Percy Johnson
Andre Johnson
Magic Johnson
Who co-founded Black Data Processing Associates, the first Black-owned computer company in the United States
Earl Dowell
Gladys West
Alvin Green
Alex F. Williams
Who was the first African American female engineer at NASA and worked on the agency's SCOUT Launch Vehicle Program
Miriam Mann
Grace Hopper
Katherine Johnson
Mae Jemison
Who is the founder and CEO of Black Girls Code?
Tracy Chou
Kimbery Bryant
Thelma Green
Tristan Walker
Who are the two newest BEYA Award Winners in the Office
Rashad Santos & Robert Johnson
Jabari Johnson & Robert Carrington
Snoop Dogg & Dr. Dre
Jabari Carrington & Robert Johnson
Scientist who created inventions, such as the ultraviolet camera, or spectrograph, which was used by NASA in the 1972 Apollo 16 flight, revealing the mysteries of space and the Earth's atmosphere
Alice Ball
Charles Turner
Percy Julian
George Carruthers
American engineer, physician and NASA astronaut. She became the first African American woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavor on September 12, 1992
Mae C. Jemison
Marie Maynard Daly
Katherine Johnson
Annie Jones
This HBCU (Historically Black College or University) tops all colleges in graduating the most African American engineering students
Morgan State University
North Carolina A&T University
Howard University
Florida A&M University
According to US Census Bureau data, what percentage of engineers in the US are African American?
~7%
~2%
~4%
~12%
