Megan has always loved being outside, from an early age picking vegetables out of her mom’s garden, up to her job now as a Senior Horticulture Manager at the Dallas Arboretum. She started volunteering with the Botanical Research Institute of Texas in 6th grade and continues to volunteer with them when she can. A Texas …
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Carrie Grant is a chemical engineer, wife, mom, and breast cancer survivor. Her curiosity about engineering began at an early age when she would bake with her mom and grandma. Carrie enjoyed the process of putting things together to create something different. Math and science were her favorite subjects in school, and she was encouraged …
Sophie Harker is an award-winning aerodynamics and performance engineer for BAE Systems, but she had no idea what job she wanted when she was growing up! However, after a visit to the Kennedy Space Center, Harker decided that she wanted to be an astronaut. Shortly after, Dr. Helen Sharman, the first British person in space, …
Jessica Esquivel is a particle physicist and the second-ever Black woman to receive her physics Ph.D. from Syracuse University. She works at Fermilab, America’s particle physics and accelerator lab, on something called the Muon g-2 experiment. As part of this project, Esquivel works with the largest detectors in the country to search for new physics. …
