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100

This actor played as iron man in the MCU.

Who is Robert Downey Jr.?

100

This is a common class that first year engineering students take during fall quarter.

What is Engineering 101?

100

This historical figure was the first black women to work as an engineer at NASA.

Who is Katherine Johnson?

100

This percent of Engineers in the U.S. are white.

What is 67.9%

100

The number of Costco pizzas at this meeting.

What is 5?

200

This animal appears on both the Porsche and Ferrari logo.

Horse?

200

This professor in the EECE department works on creating and improving biomedical systems.

Who is Dr. Wala Saadeh?

200

Walter Braithwaite is a Jamaican-born engineer with degrees in ME, CS, and business, and advocated for this program use in Boeing.

What is CAD and CAM?

200

This percentage of women leave the engineering profession within the first five years.

What is 25%?

200

The cost of a Costco Rotisserie chicken!

What is 4.99?

300

This game designer is the creator of Minecraft.

Who is Markus "Notch" Persson?

300

This OSOCE officer has worked on researching dark matter in their time at Western.

Who is Amira Brown?

300

Kalpana Chawla was an engineer, pilot, and astronaut who spent more than this many days in space.

What is 30 days?

300

This is a phenomenon where the risk of conforming to negative stereotypes about an individual's racial, ethnic, gender or cultural group can create high cognitive load and reduce both academic focus and performance. 

What is Stereotype threat?

300

Costco sells half the world's ______.

What is cashews?

400

This is Wonder Woman's secret identity.

Who is Diana Prince?

400

At Western, this major works with robots the most.

What is Manufacturing engineering? 

400

Alissa Chavez is the youngest patent holder in the US. She started her own company at the age of _____.

What is at age 14?

400

This is a phenomenon that occurs when a group of people perform better and have greater confidence due to being part of a positive stereotype.

Stereotype Lift

400

The cost of a Costco Hotdog after tax

What is $1.60?

500

This 2016 film, based on the life of three African American women mathematicians at NASA was nominated for three Oscars.

What is Hidden Figures?

500

This professor has worked within the PME department to research ocean plastics.

Who is John Misasi?

500

Dr. Ellen Ochoa was the first Hispanic woman to go to space when she served on a nine day mission abroad the Discovery space shuttle. She went to space in this year.

What is 1993?

500

Definition: Prejudice in favor of or against one person or group in contrast to another. 

What is Bias?

500

The number of eggs Costco sells each year.

What is 4 billion eggs?