Continuing the making of a woman engineer. (Part 1 is here)
In fifth grade, our teacher & student teacher started out a series on the planets, by having us create a model rocket out of things like oatmeal boxes and construction paper. My "rocket" became my new teddy bear.
My sixth grade teacher incorporated a number of 4-H activities into our curriculum, including the Blue Sky Below My Feet series.
I know these latest two seem too tiny to mention. But for the teachers out there: these little, little things made a HUGE difference. They helped keep me motivated, reminded me of why I was studying hard, kept me going. There were dark nights, many dark nights, along this path. But I'm trying to stick to the highlights as much as I can, here. The space program has been a bright spot for most of my life. (Challenger and Columbia are truly unavoidable lows in this saga.)
In fifth grade, our teacher & student teacher started out a series on the planets, by having us create a model rocket out of things like oatmeal boxes and construction paper. My "rocket" became my new teddy bear.
My sixth grade teacher incorporated a number of 4-H activities into our curriculum, including the Blue Sky Below My Feet series.
I know these latest two seem too tiny to mention. But for the teachers out there: these little, little things made a HUGE difference. They helped keep me motivated, reminded me of why I was studying hard, kept me going. There were dark nights, many dark nights, along this path. But I'm trying to stick to the highlights as much as I can, here. The space program has been a bright spot for most of my life. (Challenger and Columbia are truly unavoidable lows in this saga.)
