Everything you see around you—stuff made by nature and stuff made by humans—is known as “materials.” The way that materials behave and interact, even at the scale of atoms and molecules that are too small for us to see, shape the way we live. The Franklin Institute, a science museum in Philadelphia, worked with Penn State University’s Center …
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Laura McGill is an aerospace systems engineer. She was inspired to study the science of flight by an elementary school teacher who was also a private pilot. She attended many airshows with her family and read about the technical challenges that were overcome in the development of leading-edge air and spacecraft. As a chief engineer …
Becky Jeanes is an architect who runs Designtrait Architects, a small design company in Austin, Texas. Growing up around construction sites and real estate in Houston, she developed an avid interest in the built world. Becky loved art and math as a young girl, and one day, someone piqued her curiosity by saying, “You should …
Christina Diaz is an aerospace engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. Growing up, her mother and father both encouraged her to pursue her curiosity about science, engineering, and the universe. In 2013, Diaz graduated with a master’s degree in aerospace engineering from California Polytechnic State University, and she began working at …
