Black History Month
UCSD
WIC/SWE
STEM
DEI
100

The first Black Supreme Court Justice

Who was Thurgood Marshall?

100

Name of the Bear that lives next to the CSE building

Who is Bearl?

100

SWE’s mascot

What are bees?

100

The co-founder of Microsoft and one of the world's wealthiest philanthropists

Who is Bill Gates?

100

Person who developed the first compiler for a computer programming language

Who was Grace Hopper?

200

The organization on campus with a mission “to increase the number of culturally responsible Black engineers who excel academically, succeed professionally and positively impact the community.” 

What is NSBE?

200

The part of campus that the Raza Resource Center is located near

Where is the Trolley/Epstein Theater?

200

The mentorship program hosted by WIC and SWE

What is EDGE?

200

110101 in decimal

What is 53?

200

Person who played a key role in the discovery of the structure of DNA

Who was Rosalind Franklin?

300

The mathematician, physicist, and space scientist who played a crucial role in the calculations for the trajectory analysis for the first American in space and was the first American orbiting the Earth

Who was Katherine Johnson?

300

UCSD was built on this Native American territory

What is the Kumeyaay Nation?

300

The name of the conference that WIC sponsors students to attend

What is the Grace Hopper Conference?

300

The number of MB in 2GB?

What is 2000?

300

Person developed the first algorithm intended to be processed by a machine, making her the world's first computer programmer

Who was Ada Lovelace?

400

The location of the Black Resource Center on campus

What is the the second floor of the Original Student Center?

400

The number of engineering majors that UCSD offers

What is 9?

400

The date of SWE’s next GBM

What is February 27th?

400

The name of the rover currently on Mars?

What is Perseverance?

400

African-American mathematician who worked for NASA and was featured in the movie "Hidden Figures"

Who was Katherine Johnson?

500

A prominent agricultural scientist who promoted sustainable agriculture practices such as crop rotation, lowering Southern farmers’ dependence on cash crops

Who was George Washington Carver?

500

The third college founded at UCSD

What is Marshall?

500

The quarter and year that WIC’s DEI Committee was established

What is Spring 2023?

500

The oldest engineering discipline

What is Civil?

500

The president and CEO of the organization that hosts the Grace Hopper Celebration, anitab.org

Who is Brenda Darden Wilkerson?

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