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100

She was our Freshman Representative last year and now she is our Public Relations Chair. 

Who is Cindy? 

100

Last year WE19 was held in Anaheim, CA. This year WE20 was supposed to take place in this city know for its beignets and music.

What is New Orleans? 

100
She is Officer Cheetum's furry partner and UMBC's Chesapeake Bay Retriever comfort animal. 

Who is Chip?! 

100

True/False: A mask is considered contaminated after one use. 

True! 

100

This movie, set in Virginia, features some of the first female engineers and computers that worked at NASA. 

What is Hidden Figures? 

200

She is the owner of our unofficial mascot, Squirrel the cat.

Who is Lily, our President?

200

Claudette DuPont, our SWE Balt/Wash section liaison works for this energy company based here in Baltimore. 

What is BGE? 

200
Here you can find a lost and found, printers, a way to transfer cash onto your UMBC card, and the Commons operations staff.  

What is the Campus Information Center (CIC)? 

200

This CBEE Professor received 2 NIH grants to help create rapid COVID-19 testing. 

Who is Professor Dipanjan Pan?

200

An engineering company aimed at creating fun projects for young girls to explore STEAM has a name inspired by this childhood story with a blonde girl and an animal family. 

What is Goldilocks and the three bears? 

300

She is trilingual, loves Mediterranean food, volunteers at her church, and is our treasurer for the second year in a row! 

Who is Sumana? 

300

True/False: SWE is an organization only accessible to those that identify as woman, live in the US, and study engineering or work as an engineer. 

FALSE! All are welcome to be a part of SWE! 

300

You may have noticed that the dorm buildings are named after bodies of water, except this community... 

What is Erickson? 

300

This state paid Twenty, a software developer, for a COVID contact tracing app that ended up being wildly unpopular among residents. 

What is Utah? 

300

She played Amy Farrah Fowler, has a PHD in neuroscience, and is a mom to 2 kids. 

Who is Mayim Balik? 

400

She is a CWIT affiliate, a student researcher, a lover of animals, and a sophomore! 

Who is Amal, our event coordinator? 

400

SWE has affinity groups for minority communities including African Americans, the LGBTQ+, Asians, Latinos, and more. Allies and those that identify with the community are welcome to join. These groups can be found on this social networking site.

What is Facebook? 

400

The AOK Library has this many absolute quiet and quiet floors.

What is 4?

400

This company transformed an empty Arizona aerospace warehouse into a fully functional N95 production site in a matter of weeks. They can now produce over 150,000 masks a day! 

What is Honeywell? 

400

This computer scientist and Navy admiral popularized the idea of machine independent program languages during her long and successful career in the 20th century. She is also the namesake of a popular computer science conference.

Who is Grace Hopper? 

500

She has done research at APL, UMBC, the University of Hawaii, and Carnegie Mellon.

Who is Kaitlynn, our Vice President?? 

500

During this year the movie Cinderella came out, the first credit cards were used, the US sent troops to Vietnam, and SWE was founded! 

When is 1950? 

500

This professor will make you sing the UMBC alma matter if your phone goes off during ENES101. He sings, rides bikes, and wears a lot of bowties. 

Who is Dr. LaBerge, professor of Computer Engineering? 

500

Honeywell has created a cart that can be pushed down a plane aisle and clean the whole cabin in 10 minutes using UV light. This new tech shares its name with these fast flying birds that kill prey using a tooth on the side of their beak. 

What are falcons? 

500

She became the CEO and founder of TransTech social enterprises after teaching herself how to code. She is also known for playing Candy in the FX show Pose.  

Who is Angelica Ross? 

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