STEM
STEM means ....
Science
Technology
Engineering
Math
Called the 'human computer'
This lady's calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights.
Katherine Johnson
Author of the 1970s novel
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
and a famous poet
Maya Angelou
What year did CCAA's STEAM club start?
This year
2025
Black History Month is?
February
What is the name of the part of the human skeleton that protects the brain
The Skull
The first African American woman to obtain a Ph.D. in nuclear physics from MIT.
Her groundbreaking experiments laid the foundation for various telecommunication innovations, including the invention of fiber-optic cables that are crucial to today's global communication systems.
Dr. Shirley Jackson
Her contributions to theoretical physics also led to the development of several key technologies, such as the touch-tone telephone, portable fax, caller ID, and call waiting.
There were three writers at the forefront of the Black Women’s Literary Renaissance of the 1970s.
Name any one of the three?
Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Maya Angelou.
Authors who exemplified command of language, theme, and narrative within literature that was rarely seen, these three women paved the way for Black women writers to be read, studied, and celebrated like never before.
CCAA's STEAM club was started by how many young ladies?
4
Ujima means....
work & responsibility
What are the three states of matter?
Solid
Liquid
Gas
The first African American woman to qualify as a neurosurgeon in the United States.
Dr. Alexa Irene Canady-Davis
Over her 22-year tenure in neurosurgery, she dedicated herself to treating young patients afflicted with severe conditions, including life-threatening illnesses, gunshot injuries, head trauma, hydrocephaly, and various brain disorders, primarily treating those who were 10 years old or younger.
Which year signified a major shift for Black women writers, with many participating in the prominent Black Arts Movement?
The year 1970 signified a major shift for Black women writers. Many participated in the prominent Black Arts Movement (1965–1975) broadly, while others were members of specific writer’s organizations such as the Harlem Writer’s Guild.
Who is the Ujima STEAM Club advisor and how many children does she have?
Ms. Jackie Johnson
has three sons
A strategy board games played with small stones, beans, marbles or seeds and rows of pits in the earth, a board or other playing surface.
Mancala
What is the closest planet to the sun?
Mercury
What percentage of Black professionals are in the STEM workforce?
9%
As of 2021, Black professionals represent just 9% of the STEM workforce,
One of the world’s most important Black female painters. She specialises in portraits addressing problems with injustice in Black culture, and deliberately paints her muses’ skin tones in greyscale, taking a stand against identifying people by their skin colour.
Amy Sherald
Name the two science teachers and the two math teachers at CCAA High School?
Science - Ms. Childs & Mr. Follestad
Math - Ms. Woodward & Ms. Spencer
The Civil Rights Movement mainly took place in what decade?
1960
True or False
Mass is a weight?
Mass is NOT a weight.
Both mass and weight are forms of measurement but mass always stays the same, unlike weight, which can shift.
A trailblazing biochemist who was the first African American woman in the United States to receive a Ph.D. in chemistry.
Dr. Marie Maynard Daly
Her extensive contributions to the field of biochemistry spanned four key research areas: exploring the chemistry of histones, studying protein synthesis, examining the link between cholesterol and hypertension, and researching creatine absorption in muscle cells.
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773) is the first book of poems published by an African American woman.
Who wrote it?
Phillis Wheatley
Wheatley, a young, enslaved woman, learned how to read in both Greek and Latin at age 12 and began writing poetry at age 14. At age 20, she wrote Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. This book was published in London due to a refusal by American publishers.
How old is CCAA 7-12 school
20 years old
The name of the movement that was founded in 2013 by three Black women: Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi.
The Black Lives Matter movement
Funded in 2013 by three Black women: Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi. They started the movement in response to the acquittal of George Zimmerman, who had killed unarmed Black teenager Trayvon Martin in 2012.