Iconic Women in STEM
This woman is referred to as the first programmer
Who is Ada Lovelace?
The non-abbreviation of HTML
What is hypertext markup language?
This is UW-Madison mascot (full name)
Who is Buckingham U. Badger?
The year Girls Who Code was founded
When is 2012?
This Polish-born French physicist is famous for her research in radioactivity. She's also the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and only person to win in two different science fields. (Bonus point: which science fields did she win)
Who is Marie Curie?
The purpose of DUO mobile besides annoying students (Hint: MFA)
What is multifactor authentication?
The month and year when Morgridge Hall was opened
What happened September 2025?
The date of our next GWC meeting
When is September 28th?
The US Navy rear admiral who was known for inventing the first computer compiler and developing a programming language that used English-like words (Hint: conference named after her)
Who is Grace Hopper?
This popular operating system launched in 1991, also has its own mascot, Tux the penguin
What is Linux?
The name of historic, campus-based ice cream shop run by UW-Madison's agriculture department
What is babcock dairy?
The founder of Girls Who Code
Who is Reshma Saujani?
The first woman to travel around the Moon and beyond low Earth orbit (Hint: Artemis II)
Who is Christina Koch?
The programming language developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems (Hint: named after the type of coffee from Indonesia)
What is Java?
The official city bird of Madison, WI
What is plastic pink flamingo?
The number for GWC meeting location room
What is CS2560?
They programmed ENIAC, the first all-electronic digital computer (Hint: Hidden Figures)
Who is Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson?
The term for a testing environment in a computer system in which new or untested software or coding can be run securely (Hint: children's playground area)
What is sandbox?
This number of UW-Madison alumnis who have won Nobel Prizes (can guess within the range)
19 - 21
ALL the names of current board for GWC
Who is Justina, Yen, Angela, Trisha, Lina, Lexi?