Girl Scouts Partnership Program
STEM Cabin
Design and fabricate a mobile van which will advertise and promote STEM in the Girl Scouts program. The end result will help influence young ladies to pursue an interest in technology and the sciences.
Girl Scouts
Heart of New Jersey
Rachel had a privilege to be invited to attend and be a guest speaker on the panel of successful career women for the Girl Scouts of New Jersey dinner event. She explained how she was inspired by her father’s engineering and mother’s artistic background to become both scientific and artistic as an Industrial Designer.
The event also had a guest speaker, Marion Johnson, the NASA mathematician, also known as one of the main characters portrayed in the movie “Hidden Figures”. She was able to tell the dinner guests all about her hard-earned journey to be able to work for NASA.
Hidden Figures Movie/Book Quotes
"Women, on the other hand, had to wield their intellects like a scythe, hacking away against the stubborn underbrush of low expectations."
— Margot Lee Shetterly, Hidden Figures
“Many times, when children enter school they shun mathematics and science during the years when they should be learning the basics.”
— Margot Lee Shetterly, Hidden Figures
“Serendipity happens when a well-trained mind looking for one thing encounters something else: the unexpected.”
— Margot Lee Shetterly, Hidden Figures