Giving Women in Engineering Their Flowers!

This blog is all about girl technology magic!  It's about girls in technology supporting other girls in technology.  I am a strong advocate of women in technology and being innovative to inspire other women in engineering to be innovative and make an everlasting impact in the society in which they live.  This page is all about "Giving Women Engineering Their Flowers"!  Giving someone their flowers is a meaning to serve as an encouraging reminder for all of us to stop taking the contributions that women engineers make for granted and the existence of those whom we profess to care about and love for granted, so "give them their flowers!"

My Background

My Name is Shanel Crusoe and I am working towards my fifth degree.  I am pursuing my Doctorate Degree in Computer Science with a concentration in Big Data Analytics to help teach and inspire women to be innovative and to build up their confidence to get a STEM degree.  As I continue to move up in my career, I have future aspirations to become a director of engineering, and a technical consultant.  

In my spare time, I am very active in volunteerism and teach various STEM classes to students in my community. I work to inspire the youth to pursue a career in engineering, STEM is the wave of the future.  I love to serve, empower, and educate my community, it is my pleasure to serve.  I rely on both my subject expertise and my creativity to excite enthusiasm and understanding in the students that I tutor; this is a uniquely challenging but immensely rewarding role.

 

Futuring and Innovation Course

The objective of the Futuring and Innovation Course is to provide a strong foundation and understanding of foresight and how it ties to strategy, innovation, and ultimately being creative.  In order to support modern-day technological advances, we have to be intentional, which means that we have to be innovative.  This course will students improve their ability to identify opportunities for innovation and change.  Further, this course will provide greater insights into understanding new ways of mapping future innovative ideas to present impediments, and techniques to remove potential barriers to innovation to help satisfy emerging needs.  Whether designing a new business, creating new fashion designs, or even designing a new smartphone application, this course provides the tools for how to anticipate the opportunity and the actions to take.

So, What is this all about?

This blog is all about women in technology supporting other women in technology.  Often times we forget the contributions that women have made to technological advancements in STEM.  We overlook the challenges and obstacles that women have had to overcome.  This blog is about girl technology magic, and to highlight some of the past and present technological contributions that women have made in technology.

 Studies show that women make up only 28% of the workforce in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), and men vastly outnumber women majoring in most STEM fields in college. The gender gaps are particularly high in some of the fastest-growing and highest-paid jobs of the future, like computer science and engineering.

#1 Katherine Johnson –  

Is an engineer who studied how to use geometry for space travel.  She figured out how to assist NASA in sending astronauts into outer space to orbit around the earth.  Her mathematical calculations helped to figure out the paths for spacecraft to orbit earth and then land on the moon.  Johns is coined the name as the human “computer” because she was instrumental in John Glenn’s first orbit of earth, she worked in engineering and supported the space program for 33 years.

 #2 Lilly Mittenthal and Kenzie Butera Davis – 

Are co-founders of an application called Maro.  Maro is an application that helps parents navigate through tough conversations with their kids.  Parent are extremely busy and have tough times navigating difficult conversations with their children.  Co founders Mittenthal and Davis noticed the lack of support for parents who were dealing with the difficulties of “growing up conversations” with their children.  This app was designed to help parents engage in difficult conversations by combining digital content with artificially intelligent bots.