Deb Haaland was born in 1960. She is a member of the Laguna

Pueblo Native American tribe. In 2018, she is one of the first two

Native American women elected to the U.S. Congress.

In 2020, President Biden nominated Haaland to which role in his

Presidential Cabinet?

Margaret Hamilton was born in 1936. She served as the director

of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation

Lab, which developed on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo

Moon missions.

In 1976, Hamilton co-founded a company called:

Mia Hamm was born in 1972. She was a forward on the U.S.

National Women’s Soccer team from 1987-2004 and won two

World Cups and two Olympic Gold Medals. She is considered the

first superstar in women’s soccer.

For what college team did Mia Hamm play soccer?

Kamala Harris was born in 1964. Harris’ mother was from India and

her father was from Jamaica. Harris attended Howard University in

Washington, D.C. In 2020, she became the first woman and first

Black American elected to the office of Vice President.

Before being elected Vice President, Harris was a U.S. Senator from:

Marcelite Harris was born in 1943 in Houston, Texas. She was the

first Black woman to serve as a major general in the U.S. military.

Her service medals and decorations include the Bronze Star, the

Presidential Unit Citation, and the Vietnam Service Medal.

In which branch of the U.S. Military did she serve?

Mae Jemison was born in 1956 in Decatur, Alabama. She

earned an engineering degree from Stanford University, and

then went on to attend medical school. In 1992, she became

the first Black woman in space.

Jemison was the mission specialist for which space shuttle?

Grace Hopper was born in 1906. She was a U.S. Navy Rear

Admiral and one of the earliest computer programmers. She

worked on the staff of the Harvard Mark I computer during

WWII.

In 2017, which University named one of their residential

colleges after Hopper?

Katherine Johnson was born in 1918. She was a mathematician who

worked for NASA. Her calculations of orbital mechanics contributed

to the success of early U.S. crewed spaceflights, including NASA’s

first human spaceflight.

In 2015, at age 97, she received what honor from President

Obama?

Barbara Jordan was born in 1936. She was a lawyer and

politician. In 1973, she became the first Black woman from

the South to be elected to the U.S. Congress.

Soon after her election to the U.S. House of Representatives,

she became well known for her participation in the:

Frida Kahlo was born in 1907. She is a well-known painter who

is particularly famous for her self-portraits and portraits.

What country is Frida Kahlo from?

Mother Teresa was born in 1910 in North Macedonia. She was a

Roman Catholic nun living in India who started a group called

Missionaries of Charity to help the poor and sick.

In 1979, Mother Teresa earned what major honor for her work?

Florence Nightingale was born in 1820 in Italy. She is known as

the founder of modern nursing. She was a strong at

mathematics and used data and statistics to improve nursing.

Nightingale rose to prominence as a nurse in which war?

Sandra Day O’Connor was born in 1930. She grew up on a

large cattle ranch in Arizona. She became a lawyer, and in

1981, she was the first woman to serve as a Justice on the

U.S. Supreme Court. She served in this position until 2006.

Sandra Day O’Connor earned her law degree from:

Beatrix Potter was born in England in 1866. She was an English

author, illustrator, and conservationist best known for her 23

children’s books. Upon her death, she gave her land to the

government to become a National Park in England.

Potter is well known for writing which book?

Sally Ride was born in California in 1951. She was an American

astronaut and physicist who was the first American women in

space, in 1983. She was the third overall woman in space.

When Ride traveled to space in 1983 for the first time, she was

aboard which NASA space shuttle?

Hayat Sindi was born in 1967. She is a biomedical scientist who

works to make health monitoring and care more accessible in

impoverished and remote places around the world.

Sindi is from which country?

Sonia Sotomayor was born in The Bronx, New York in 1954. She

attended Princeton University and Yale Law School. She was first

appointed as a District Court judge in 1991. She is the first person

of Latin heritage to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Sotomayor was nominated for the U.S. Supreme Court in what year?

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in 1815. She was an American

suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the

early women's rights movement. She helped to organize the

1848 Seneca Falls Convention to advocate for women’s rights.

Cady Stanton’s house is a National Historic site in which state?

Alma Woodsey Thomas was born in 1891. She an Expressionist

painter who was known for her large, colorful abstract paintings.

In 1924, she earned an art degree from Howard University.

For most of her life, Alma Woodsey Thomas lived in which city?

Diana Trujillo was born in 1980. She is a Colombian

aerospace engineer at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory,

and serves as Mission Lead for the Mars Curiosity rover.

She also leads the team responsible for the robotic arm of

the Perseverance rover that landed on Mars in:

Chien-Shiung Wu was born in 1912. She was a experimental

physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project that built the

atomic bomb during World War II. After WWII, she became a

physics professor at Columbia University.

In country was Chien-Shiung Wu born?