Phenom

1 of 6: Abisoye Ajayi-Akinfolarin:

Abisoye Ajayi-Akinfolarin sharing her talent with disadvantaged girls to change their lives and communities by learning to code.














2 of 6: Diana Trujillo:

Meet Diana Trujillo, as an engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Diana Trujillo is taking us to Mars.

Trujillo’s work on the NASA Mars Curiosity Rover mission has given us our first close-up glimpses of Mars and clear evidence that the Red Planet was once capable of supporting life.








3 of 6 : Mae Jemison

When the space shuttle Endeavour blasted off on its second mission, it carried the first African American woman into space. But Mae Jemison is more than an astronaut — she's also a physician, a Peace Corps volunteer, a teacher, and founder and president of two technology companies.










4 of 6: Kathryn Dimaria:

Fourteen-year-old Kathryn DiMaria can't get her driver's license for another two years, but that hasn't stopped her from building the car of her dreams. At age 12, Kathryn convinced her parents to let her buy and begin restoring a 1986 Pontiac Fiero with $450 in babysitting money. Over the past two years, she has painstakingly restored every part of her Fiero by hand, quickly learning advanced mechanical skills such as welding, grinding, upholstering, sandblasting, even how to rebuild an engine.

Watch and learn how Kathryn's project earned her an invitation from General Motors to attend the 2013 Detroit Auto Show and hang out with two female engineers from the original Fiero team.



5 of 6: Collete Davis:

Collete Davis went to school at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University for Mechanical Engineering and entrepreneurship at 16.










6 of 6 : Girls and S.T.E.M:

How often have you heard a student say "I'm not good at math or science?"

University of Washington researchers have learned that girls in particular draw conclusions about their science and technology abilities much earlier than anyone suspected – even by the time they start elementary school.

We speak with a researcher about ways to boost girls' interest in science and technology.

1 of 6: Abisoye Ajayi-Akinfolarin

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2 of 6: Careers in Tech: NASA

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3 of 6: The First Woman of Color in Space

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4 of 6: Kathryn DiMaria: building the car of her dreams.

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5  of 6: collete davis: A race car driver and an engineering student

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6 of 6 : Girls and STEM:

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