Firsts in 2020
This team named former National Football League (NFL) running back Jason Wright as the first Black president in the NFL.
Who is the NFL's Washington Football Team?
The hiring by team owner Daniel Snyder of the 38-year-old Wright, who rose quickly in the business world after getting an MBA at the University of Chicago and became a partner at McKinsey & Company, comes at a difficult time for a franchise
This mega water gun was developed during Lonnie Johnsons' free time while working at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
What is the Super Soaker?
The engineer developed this mega water gun in his free time while working at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. And once the toy, dubbed the Super Soaker, hit shelves in 1990 it's popularity skyrocketed. In 2017, Forbes reported that it had earned over $1 billion in retail sales.
The first woman, first African American and first Asian American to be elected vice president attended this HBCU in undergrad.
What is Howard University?
Oprah, Michael Jordan, Jay-Z and Kanye West are all billionaires. True or false?
What is True?
Margaret Keenan became the first person to receive a ________ vaccine approved for the general public.
What is COVID-19 vaccine?
The grandmother who was 90 when she got the shot, received it at University Hospital Coventry in the U.K. on December 8.
Commander Victor Glover Makes History as 1st African American Astronaut to Live on _______________.
What is NASA's International Space Station (ISS)?
Mark Dean, earned doctorate at Stanford University, is a co-inventor of the original personal computer and the PC color monitor for this company.
Who is IBM?
Dean, who earned a doctorate at Stanford University, is a co-inventor of IBM's original personal computer and the PC color monitor, literally changing how we all interact with the internet. And the technology that enables printers, keyboards, and mice to communicate with your computer? That's him, too.
Noah Harris was elected president of Harvard’s Undergraduate Council on Nov. 12, becoming the first Black undergraduate elected as student body president at ____________ University
What is Harvard University?
Billionaire Robert F. Smith’s pledge to pay off the education loans of the 2019 graduates of Morehouse College in Atlanta totals _____ Million.
In addition to paying the loans incurred by those graduates, he will cover the educational loans taken out by their parents. His gift to the class now adds up to $34 million.
NSBE 2025 Strategic Plan is to graduate this many Black engineers annually.
What is graduate 10,000 Black engineers annually?
NSBE 2025 is a strategic goal for the U.S. is to graduate 10,000 Black engineers annually with a bachelor’s degree by 2025
Dr. Namandjé Bumpus Becomes 1st Black Woman Department Chair at ____________ Medical School
What is Johns Hopkins Medical School?
The original design of this system contained a camera, two-way microphone, peepholes, and monitors.
What is the first-ever home security system?
Marie Van Brittan Brown filed a patent in 1966 for the first-ever home security system after wanting to increase her own house's security in her Queens, New York neighborhood. Her original design contained a camera, two-way microphone, peepholes, and monitors, all serving as the foundations for today's modern systems.
In 2020, Nicholas Johnson was named Princeton's first ______________ .
Who is Princeton's first Black valedictorian?
Name of the 2020 award given to HP Inc. for impactful programs such as HP HBCU Business Challenge.
What is the 2020 NSBE Golden Torch Award (GTA) for Corporate Diversity?
Kim Ng is believed to be the first female GM for a men's team in a major professional sport in North America for this team.
Who are the MLB's Florida Marlins?
The first African American female engineer at NASA.
Who is Mary Jackson?
NASA has announced they are naming the agency’s headquarters building in Washington, D.C. after Hampton University alumna Mary W. Jackson, who was the first African American female engineer at NASA and featured in the movie, “Hidden Figures.”
NSBE S.E.E.K. acronym stands for...
What is the Summer Engineering Experience for Kids (SEEK) program of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)?
A free 3-week summer enrichment program – Serving 3rd – 5th grade students – Exposes students to the world of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math)
Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna became the first two women to ever jointly win the ___________ in Chemistry.
What is the Nobel Prize?
Charpentier, who is French, and Doudna, an American, were awarded the prize for developing the CRISPR-cas9 genetic scissors.
Lisa Gelobter is an engineer that helped to develop web animation as well as helped launch this TV streaming service.
What is Hulu?
Gelobter was closely involved with the 1995 creation of Shockwave as a software engineer, the technology that helped to develop web animation. (Think all those GIFs we know and love). She also helped launch Hulu and served on the senior management team.
The first African American woman to earn a doctorate at MIT.
Who is Shirley Jackson?
Jackson, the first African American woman to earn a doctorate at MIT, is responsible for monumental telecommunications research that led to the invention of products such as the touch-tone phone, portable fax, fiber optic cables, and caller ID. In 2014 President Barack Obama named her the co-chair of the President's Intelligence Advisory.
Who is the wealthiest black person in the world?
According to the 2019 Forbes 2019 ranking of the world's billionaires, Nigerian business magnate Aliko Dangote (founder, chairman, CEO of Dangote Group, an industrial conglomerate in Africa) had a net worth of $10.9 billion and was the world's richest black person.
Dubbed the "Father of the Blood Bank" by the American Chemical Society
Who is Charles Richard Drew?
Dubbed the "Father of the Blood Bank" by the American Chemical Society, Drew pioneered the research used to discover the effective long-term preservation of blood plasma. He also streamlined the country's blood banks, establishing methods that were used by the Red Cross. Drew's contributions saved countless of lives during World War II.