Famous Women
First American woman in space
What are the layers of the Earth?
What are the crust, mantle, and core?
What is Harker WiSTEM's email?
What is harker.wistem@gmail.com ?
Women are significantly underrepresented in all STEM fields.
(False) While women are underrepresented in certain fields like engineering and physics, they are well-represented in others, like the life sciences.
What percentage of scientific researchers worldwide are women?
A. 20%
B. 30%
C. 50%
D. 70%
B. 30%
First woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first person to win it twice
Who is Marie Curie?
How many elements are on the periodic table?
What is 118?
How many WiSTEM Officers are there?
What is 13?
The majority of women are not interested in STEM careers.
What percentage of the professional computing roles are held by women?
A. 25%
B. 30%
C. 50%
D. 85%
A. 25%
First woman to be elected to Congress
a. Jeannette Rankin
b. Ashley Moody
c. Tina Smith
d. Tammy Baldwin
a. Who is Jeannette Rankin?
What is it called when a solid changes directly into a gas?
What is Sublimation?
Without searching it up, how many initiatives are listed on WiSTEM's website?
What is 5 (Research Symposium, STEM Buddies, TechzGirls, Wavelength Podcast, WISER)?
Women who pursue STEM careers are more likely to leave the field within one year of graduation.
(True) Many women leave the STEM field within one year of graduating, despite the increase in the number of women studying STEM.
What percentage of management roles in the STEM fields are women?
A. 5%
B. 15%
C. 40%
D. 95%
B. 15%
A primatologist and ethologist known for her groundbreaking research on chimpanzees
Who is Jane Goodall?
What element is named after the Greek word for greenish-yellow?
What is Chlorine?
Name one of the 5 missions of WiSTEM
What is...
1. To foster the interests of women in STEM by inviting guest lecturers, organizing activities led by women to engage youth and the Harker community in STEM, and creating a STEM-based network of representative mentors and Harker alumni.
2. To empower and mentor future professional women in STEM disciplines.
3. To increase accessibility to education, support, and resources in STEM locally and internationally.
4. To initiate discussions, raise awareness about, and actively confront disparities in treatment and opportunities among genders in the workplace and academic institutions.
5. To showcase the scientific endeavors of Harker students in involved, community-wide events.
There are more trees on our Earth than stars in our galaxy.
True!
How many times longer is a Plutonian year than an Earth year?
A. 5 Times
B. 10 Times
C. 125 Times
D. 250 Times
D. 250 Times
The first female engineer
a. Hedy Lamarr
b. Edith Clark
c. Marie Curie
d. Caroline Herschel
b. Who is Edith Clark?
How many bones do sharks have?
What is 0?
What year was the first Research Symposium?
What is 2006?
Milk is the one substance that a laser can not shine through.
False; it is water because of total internal reflection.
Emma Haruka Iwao, a Google employee, achieved the record for computing Pi to how many digits in 2019?
A. 100
B. 4 Million
C. 1.5 Trillion
D. 31 Trillion
D. 31 trillion