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we're definitely not done.>> but when we stand, stand with us.we are the united states woman. >> the united states of womanand we stand stronger when we stand together.today will change tomorrow. 4 together we got this.we got this. >> we got this.[ applause ] >> welcome to nasa and a specialwelcome to the united state of woman.we are glad oh have you at nasa headquarters for a look atengaging woman and girls through

data science.examples of how nasa is bringing newcomers, especially woman, into data science. we hope the presentations aheadwill spark ideas that you can take back to your community andorganizations to further engage woman and girls.we also hope that you learn a little more about nasa and ourjourney to mars. that was a truly inspiringvideo. if that doesn't get you excitedabout the discussion ahead, i don't know what will. .>> on the agency signs program

and science-related.she is planning an investment. her appointment has two sciencesand will return to nasa. from 1991-2000 she had a numberof senior sciences positions within the agency.she was vice president of the research in maryland andhonorary professor at university college.welcome dr. ellen stofan. >> thank you and welcome towashington, d.c. and to nasa headquarters.it is wonderful to have people

talking about a topic that isnear and dear to my heart and girls engaged in science,technology, engineering and math 5 especially using data science.i hope that the information you received at the summit yesterdaywas enlightening and ignited interest in this area.wasn't yet amazing? [ applause ]>> i don't think i have ever been so moved bay speech as theone from the vice president. it the whole event it made mereflect in the progress that we made.the challenges that we face now

and made me personally motivatedto push forward for all of us if not for my two daughters.advancing and opening doors for woman and girls in all fronts iscritical to maximizeing our potential as a nation and as aplanet. we realize the importance of adiverse and inclusive environment and making progressin the right direction. we are fortunate to haveoutstanding woman leaders at all leaders and in all types ofworlds. yesterday, if you went to thesolution seminar in the the

education, you heard fromchristina, one of the the members of our newest class ofastronauts. this class of eight is the firsttime we had an astronaut class that is 50% men and 50% womanwhich is amazing. [ applause ]>> as you can see from this slide, nasa is more -- not thatslide. nasa is more than justastronauts. we have woman engineers,mathematicians, geologists, biologists and yes rocketscientists. 6

we have woman leading ourcenters, overseeing is launches, building rockets, studying ourearth, star, interpreting data of all kinds.today you will hear from all nasa woman including our deputyof administrator and the chief technology of the united states.woman have made significant contributions to our agencysince its inception. the woman you see in the lowerright corner of the picture next to former astronaut is katherinejohnson who got a shout out from the president yesterday.she was born in 1918 and was

known as the girl who liked tocount. by the time she was 10 yearsold, she was a freshman in high school.an amazing fete at a time when african-americans stopped in the8th grade if you were lucky enough to go to school at all.she went to work for nasa the -- nasa's predecessor in hampton,virginia it was considered a tedious job but not forkatherine and other woman hired at the time.she put her math schools to work.in those days they were called

the woman computers.my father actually worked for nasa at our glen research centerat the time and he said when you had equations you took all yourpapers with your equations written out and walk to thisroom and there would be this room full of woman at a deskwith slide rules the which the younger people in the the unitedstates don't know what that is and the woman would function asa giant human computer. 7 katherine calculated the spacefor allen shepherd. john glenn asked that sherecheck the calculations made by

the new computers aboard thefirst flight. that's how valuable she was.she was one of the african-american heroes of ourcountry who didn't just carry on.she helped carry the nation's space program despite what shehad to deal with living at that time in this place.she went to meetings where she wasn't invited and not totallywelcome because she knew she belonged and that her skillswere relevant and needed. it's not about diversity, it'sabout inclusion.

we have to bring everyone in theroom and make sure they're welcome.katherine received the nation's highest award, the presidentialmedal of freedom from president obama.so amazing. [ applause ]>> our goal today is to talk about the goal of data science.highlight some of the ways we have been able to bring womanand girls here at nasa. our hope is that thesediscussions will spark ideas that you can take back to yourorganizations and communities.

to help us find wayss to reallyinspire and develop what we like to call the mars generationbecause that's where we're headed and we need woman andgirls to know they are needed and wanted on this journey withnasa. i love data because afteranalyzing it, i'm able to draw 8 conclusions that increase ourknowledge and understanding. the reason we launched thehubble space telescope and the reason we will launch thetelescope in 2018 which will allow us to see the first lightof the universe way back at a

time nearly the big bang.it will help u us get this data that will truly be able to tohelp us understand our solar systems form, how planetaryrysystems form. recent data from our spacetelescope has confirmed over 2,000 planets just looking at anarea of the sky that you could have cover up with your thumb ifyou went outside tonight and put it up in the sky.2 ,000 new planets. when i was kid, we had nineplanets. then we went down to eight,sorry about pluto but our future

solar system scientists, some ofwhom i hopefully see in this room are going to have thousandsof planets to study. that's going to change the waywe look at our solar system, our universe and especially theplanet that we live on. as nasa's chief scientists i'mresponsibility for advising the administrator on scienceprograms and strategic planning and investments and i use a lotof data to help me form those reck ph*eb menations.-- recommendations. they are assuring that they arelined with and fulfill the

scientific objective.i work to promote and preserve the integrity of our scientificresearch program across the agency so that we remain acredible source of data and only 9 content.it wasn't my dream to become the chief scientist of nasa.when i was growing up i liked picking up rocks.i had a huge collection all over the house and i still do whichmy husband is not totally crazy about.but i was always surrounded by stem role models.my father worked for nasa and my

mother was science teacher.as i was u growing up that people get paid for picking uprocks and analyzing and at that point i e thought that is thecareer for me. so i followed my dreams and wentto college to study geology and went on the become a planetarytry geologists. i had an opportunity to work andlead several nasa missions and science programs.i worked on venus, mars, a saturn and the earth.you can imagine how i used my data to have findings.most of the work we use here at

nasa involves data.we increase our understanding and make improvements all aroundus. we received data from some ofthe most complex areas on earth and across the solar system andbeyond to be used in many ways. the research that we do is theresult of years or decades of planning and data analysis but uthe results are enlightening and often awe inspiring.many of these discoveries made life better here on this planet.nasa's earth orbiting satellites are providing real-time data onrising sea levels, record

temperatures and increasingsevere weather happening all 10 around us u.here's one of the the ways we use data.this shows actual data that we collected, not a model of globaltemperature since 1884 with the blue colors being cooler and theorange being warmer areas. as you can see, the globaltemperatures are rising over time.we use data like these to develop models to project thefuture effects of our changing climate.some of these effects will occur

no matter what we do with carbonemissions but our models certainly show the groom effectsthat will occur if we do nothing.just this past year, scientists reported the execellerateing icemelting in green land and in the arctic and the shift seen inagriculture. climate change is happeningtoday. this is not just our problemalone, but it's a world-wide program problem.so we are developing partnerships with othercountries to combat these

challenges.these science data are being use bid scientists to under standand better predict climate expects.were work ohing with international partners to turnthe data into information that we can use to help this countryand countries around the world become more resilient to theeffects of climate change. nasa has a goal to ebg tendhuman presence to the surface of mars by the 2030s.there's a lot we can learn about 11 earth past and future byexploring mars.

our robotic explorers have give-p us enough data and pictures to spark more questions in thescience community than answers. we have found that mars historywas comparable to earth and that the conditions early in mar'shistory were likely suitable for the evolution of life and recentevidence has provided good evidence that we see runningwater on the surface of mars. it makes us ask the question,"could there still be life on mars?"in 2020, a mars rover the size of a car will launch towardsmars to build on our curiosity

rover in addressing thesequestions act the potential for life on mars in the past orright now. and to discover khal challengesfor future human exploration. we are scoping tout scene andlooking for potential entry ties lou a successful human missionto mars in the 2030s. these robotic explorers provideus with a lot of data but need humans on the ground breakingopen, analyzing mar's rocks and dirt to find more clues andanswers to give us that question of whether life evolved.we are developing the mars

generation and we need your helpbringing in woman and girls in the stem fields to contribute tothis journey and maybe be one of those first astronaut, firstscientists to walk on the surface of mars.there are many ways you can participation in our mission andone is through citizen scientists.they provide vital data to the 12 science community and makingactual discovers whether it's helping us find planets aroundother stars or helping us map the surface of mars.nasa doesn't know all there is

to know nor do we have theresources to find answers to all our questions so we are liveleverageing the scales of the public.more information can be found a at science.nasa.gov/citizenscientists. you can engage woman and girlsto extend through disease science.i -- i am hoping that these you take back to your org stkaeugsand to your communities as you play your part.thank you for all the work you are doing in your organizationsand communities to engage woman

and girls in science,technology, education and engineering and math.thank you. [ applause ]>> thank you dr. stofan. let's take a moment to hear fromsome other woman of nasa. >> our understanding of theuniverse. the leading role in space ebgebg phror ration. the charge of america's spaceprogram. provides leadership planning andpolicy directions for nasa's programs and functions..

perfecting new state of the theart space suits. learn more at nasa.gov. .>> now, it is my honor to introduce nasa deputyadministrator dr. dava newman and u.s. chief technologyofficer, megan smith. 13 >> i do it but i earned my suit.so good to be here. >> yeah.>> thank you for joining us. how is everyone?i missed yesterday. but be known, i went online andstayed up to 3 a.m. london time just to get a peek.i wasn't going to miss this for

the world.this is just too important. so, we have the u.s. chieftechnologist here. megan is a great friend.no one more qualified to talk to us about woman and data.we have huge goals for the future.thank you thr-fplt stofan. we are recruiting the generationand we need more so we can go past, present or future or letyou talk about the project you've been working on.>> right. we have been working on a bunchof these -- we are really

looking at the capabilities andtalent and how do we unlock the talent of the american peopleand the people in the world. it's so awesome to be here atnasa. you are just driving so much tolight and engagement with what everybody is following you.i think every week, every day there's something that nasa isdoing whether you are looking out and adventuring the way youdo or rather looking down at the planet and figuring out what weneed to do here at home with data science.you just mentioned katherine, so

many people have been part ofcreating what's going on. we had a little image -- i don'tknow if they can bring it up. 14 it's a beautiful mass image.>> this photo was taken by astronaut katy coleman when shewas receiving a delivery. what was really surprising tome, can you see new york city? it is looking down on senecafalls. it seems so appropriate to bringthem up. i thought they could never haveimagined when they were meeting at the first ever woman'sconvention.

it is a document we have thecontent. somebody is handing it out.if you are listening online or on tv you can search for thedeclaration. when they were writing ameeting, they had no idea that up above them whatever a hundredsomething years later, would be katy, a woman, catching thisdelivery on the space station. the sentiments are important toread because it's one oh the most comprehensive documentsever written act woman's equality.no one had access to education

and even today if you were tored line or write up, what's true in this sentiment that theyask for -- how far have we come? we have come far in the unitedstates but other placess haven't.i was able to work close before i came to government and a lotof people don't know that her favorite subject is physics.we were talking act that yesterday but the access ofeducation that they so desperately wanted and didn'thave it and look at us now. so, it spoke to me from 1848 isthe last sentiment about 15

confidence.how important confidence is. so this idea of creativeconfidence and that everyone would be able to do their thingis really important and whatever it is your passion is that youwould bring we need that for this the world.we need that for all the the challenges that we have.it ao really important to remember our past.there's another image around data -- i don't know if they cansee the next one. this is something that we foundon the web.

it's a little craft.this is not our work. if you click on it, the stuffthey did they listed it on a screen play.these are all male cast and female cast and it's interestingwho gets to speak on film. we voice it.every time we watch on tv, men are learning not to listen towoman. that's what's happening to us inmeetings. this is a great example of usingdata science to help ourselves. no one created this.over here in the corner you u

can see children's television.it's the male/female lines. even the film, "frozen" which isso a awesome. we could never know this inorder to fix it if we didn't measure it.so, dava and i were talking. it is just crowd source.we can learn so much by sharing and collaboration and share itwith us. >> working with nasa and ournational academies called the 16 science exchange.they have scientists and engineers that work with thehollywood folks.

they want to get it right.they are busy and disciplined. so tomorrow land, i had neverseen it but it's fantastic. the little sister is a rockstar, no, the big sister. sascha is the writer for disneycome to us. we want to get this work.the martian. they got the science right.they signed the eff out of us. . >> my friend came out of"martian" and said, "mom, some day mars is just going to belike canada and the uh, i think the earth will be like ethiopiawhere everyone came from."

>> absolutely.my only picks are three things. i do it but for not for humans.wind on mars is like a little feather.he knew that. no one will read a book or seethat. >> we just were over at thenational academy. we were showing this image hereand so we were talking about bias in classrooms, what's onthe walls make you feel if you belong.who are we celebrating? who's in public spaces.add a female statue everywhere.

who can we celebrate?sue susan b.anthony and talk about the galaxy of woman.you are doing the workshop around it.with the "martian" some casting directors, mentioned that just asuggsuggestion to bring different kinds of actors.. 17 in the star trek really happenedand we want to celebrate that. >> absolutely.so we celebrate a little success but when you look at the data aswell. here at nasa we have a third ofwoman over all and engineers we

are over 20%.that's not good enough from where i come from.what's the goal? the goal for me is parity, 50%.woman scientists in nasa we are under 30%.we have to call it what it is. in terms of we look at girls incomputer science. ten states of less than tenpeople taking it. people, girls and boys.my home state of montana, not a single girl and not a singleboy. mississippi doesn't have a girltaking ap so, we are doing

better, we had 18% take it.from 2014-2015. another 1% increase.people on mars are in the 2030. we're not going to close thegirls taking the ap computer signs exam.ly have people in mars before i get 50% of the the girls takethe computer science. we are all in this together buti think the data does speak to us.>> you have to -- i think the work is really important.we have these ideas of who oh does what.if you look at the jobs we there

are 5.5 million jobs.so 600,000 jobs opened across the whole country in technologyand it takes 50% more than the average american salaries.people don't go for it. 18 they don't see it on tv.it's 15-1. it's worse for people of color.we need to feel the whole american team not just aportion. we went them all in.there's a lot of great stuff to do and it's a huge opportunityfor our country. we started tech hire which areshort course boot camps.

in a couple months he can get inand they are really pulling in and they will take as manytwo-year and four-year degrees and they want more.the academy, we are seeing great breaks because people arechanging how they're teaching so they're making it more active.nine out of ten parents want coding.so there's money coming in from the corporation from nationalcommunity service. requesting congress in thebudget to help train all the teachers so we can teachcomputational thinking.

wouldn't it be fun if you werein third grade and doing mysteries and had to do cripta.in the middle of writing the da vinci code.how do we make people feel like there's nasa people.it's not true. there were fabulous kids onstage yesterday. they had their video and doingcombinations in a silent movie video that they were one of thefinalists for ms. count but how do we keep it that way?>> it's teaching and e emursion. i dedicated my entire life toteaching.

we are on our journey to mars.we need e the artist, we need 19 the story tellers.those are the visionaries. they tell our storiess.in this job i put a "d" on the end.very intentionally. were not making much moreprogress much more quickly. we have a 3-d generation outthere. >> yeah.and adreana. we need -- and there'stechnology and she sees technology every day.i see the nasa technology every

day which is cool.>> it's board that comes on tour cell phone.these are $5 that you are teaching in second grade andthousand do do this. and on to fairs and internet andthings. so, how do we get our childrento feel like not just users of tech but creators at all levels.things that they are passionate about.whether they want to do film making like kids with their maskfilms or help contribute to citizen's science.>> changing the world.

think about that.the nagal academy of engineering -- the nationalacademy of engineering, that was never taught by a female.i never met a female engineer. if you can't see yourself, thenthe it it's hard. but what about this, we used tosay our generation you had to be the best in physicss, the bestin math, chemistry, how intimidating is that?you filter people out. you need to filter people in.what do you love. 20 what's your passion?build up rockets.

who goes to mars.who are these incredible historical woman calledcomputers. your iphone is a computer.>> unbelievable smart mathematicians but you need tochange the imageing. you have to see yourself.>> you know what it's for and you are encouraged and youactually try it. it may feel like gym class, ormusic class, explore together and not make people bored or tintim intimated. >> or team work.i don't want to work with people

like me.how boring is that? i need computer science.i need geologists. niece are the friends i want.i know we will serve more world problems if we get the diversityin. that's standard.that's racial diversity. walk in someone el's else'sshoes. i have to see how someone elsethinks. >> yes, these are thesustainable development goals. >> in from the united nations.>> so the united nations are

call.it's so incredible to work across all the differentcountries together. so, the sustainable developmentgoals are a group of goals that were developed by the countriesthat civil society and scientists and everyonecollaborating to take the goals. this is in the next the 15years. 21 what do we need to do?it's incredibly comprehensive. whether you look at equality,life on water, life on land, justice and peace.water and consumption in a

sustainable way.smart cities and what are the sky or mars their beyond thelimits as far as what do we do to bring everybody along.it's unlike the talent. we have a clap collaborationwhere we asked the u.n. and we met.people already had solutions to these.they recommend people. go find these incredibleentrepreneurs in your communities and ask them to tellyou what they are doing. they put up this web form andthe science ministries and

across the world.there were 800 submissions from a hundred countries doingextraordinary teams. this is a flying drone team.their goal is to plant trees in a program.chemical engineer outdoing solar lighting and microenterprise andthis mission with an advanced solution up in the corner.the team here is many people don't have representation inprison. so they don't have enough.so people teaching law in the prison and people arerepresenting themselves.

a woman got her off death rowfrom capitol punishment. everyone is awesome on thisplanet. how do we help them to have thecon confidence to do their thing.it would represent to get moving 22 and that happened.one of my favorites is a mechanical engineer as we go inthe week of making is this beautiful am and here.it is this beautiful image here. they are running in a lab.there are hundreds of labs around the planet.it's like the shop, home-ec and

art room it's a place wherepeople can help you make anything.can you imagine the amazon. the talent there with diversityand knowledge. people would get up there ifthey had 3-d printing and capabilities.it would be available to everyone.there is a team, a brazilian team building this idea.we hope that all american kids and kids around world will haveaccess. if you know about the nagal weekof making, -- if you know about

the national week of making.if you don't, go look online. i was thinking of this littleboard, steve jobs had a board and it was little bigger.they played around with these ideas and what came out of that?the apple computer. >> they had the mostdy sraoersteam. -- they had the most diverseteam. there were some designer,engineers and they put together people who actually loved it.it was insanely great. that is a clear mission i.insanely great.

you just want to be ebg lent.we -- excellent. we want to lift humanity andobtain -- if it's possible, then 23 we are in.it u needs to seem impossible because that's when you bringthe best in. >> yes, collect all thesepeople. you mentioned the team thathad -- a lot of times, if you go online and look up the historicphotos of the the macintosh team there's lots of men and womantogether in those photoss. for some reason you keepwriting -- susan was just in the

white house and a lot using alot of her interface design. she is a person who can takethose ideass and make them work in this tiny memory footprintthe chicago font. she said you think this isawesome and she popped up a picture of pyro.woman like herself have extraordinary art to your pointon all of us and how we interact with our devices and thebeautiful graphics and she kicks us off in this digital centurythat we live in. >> megan and i talk about this,writing history.

writing our own history.woman are not in. how many people know aboutkatherine johnson. you need to write our ownhistory because we have pioneers.we need to put up a blog just for fun.there's ten nasa woman that we don't think even nasa woman knowabout it. we will celebrate thesepioneers. it is on our watch to writehistory as we see it. these how history is written.if you don't write it, you're 24

not in it.>> a data relates to something i want to give you.this is a pin. it was designed by alice.we mentioned her yesterday. most people don't know aboutalice. when susan b.anthony died, alicebecame the fifth year leader. she came many to washington.she organizeed a parade down pennsylvania avenue right outhere from congress to the treasury steps.that is the design. the parade of elizabeth and hertroops.

so they will be on it.so in that parade, was one of our greatest american datascientists idab.wells. she is an incredible journal isin the 1800s. she really social changed.she used data science to communicate to american what wewere doing with lynchess. she changed the people's heartsand minds. there was an idea that she wouldmarch with the illinois contingent and theafrican-american people would march in the back.it it was first public event.

helen keller was in this march.there's a wonderful set up that was on the cover of the chicagotribune. let's think about ida and datascience and social change and what kind of peace aboutjustice. looking at data science earlierthis week, so we can solve so many problems.environmental problems, exploration problems.>> working together. 25 >> this is for you.>> thank you. >> this is what alice designedto the woman who went to jail

standing on the white housefence. the first in the history of theunited states with 2 ,000 woman across two years from 1917-1919together. if you went, you got one ofthese pins. the new monument is next tocongress now is dedicated by the president about a month ago.so people should visit and learn that history.>> we will thank you, megan. we will keep you talking.there are too many people out there that we want to talk to.we will open it up to q&a.

how about coming to government.what about the opportunities in government and we will walkaround and get some of your questions.perfect. >> i will take advantage ofbeing the moderator to ask the first question.that question is, one of the objectives today is how toengage in the newcomers. you are experienceed in beingrecruited to stem. how were you attracted to a stemfield? >> i think almost everybodywho -- whatever passion or

career you follow you can pointto a moment when you got engaged.the moment for me are examples that in nasa researchunderstanding what it's for and having confidence that you cando it. being encouraged and for me itwas president carter putting 26 solar panels on the white house.my school requiring making sure that we had experiences that allkids, not -- they would be degrudging me.it's the science fair. so, i did all my projects withwind and solar and other types

of things throughout high schooland i became a mechanical engineer because of thosetechnologiess. >> interesting.it for me it was probably president reagan.i wanted to be a lawyer. no one had given me thatmentoring and i hadn't met many engineers.i had one uncle who became a bio-medical engineer.you need need one. going back to if the reagan, iwas a college student. i said we need to get thisright.

let's explore.i was honored yesterday to be able to give a speech at theu.n. on the committee on the uses of outer space.it takes full circle. how do you do that?mechanical? i couldn't even fix my car.now, i love to fly and the "apollo" program.i was young girl growing up in the '60s.that makes you dream big. we sent men to the moon.a few things. there were projects but also theapollo program is the reason why

i'm flying here today.>> yes that connection is pull something that matters.you have an energy crisis. you have a part of it. it is inthat way. 27 >> issues, the problems, that wedo want and take a picture and dream and make it better.all of our exploreing, i -- exploreing, i still continuepluto as a dwarf planet. >> i count it.>> so all of our stories going to jupiter and come with us.we can maybe get some of this right.>> i just flashed on galleo and

how amazing the team.there's a great clip on it. >> if you haven't seen galleo'sdaughter. it's great.>> i second that. i love that book.if you have a question -- we have a question.people way in the back. >> hi, ladies.i am a co-founder that is dedicated the transforminggiving landscape through the use of technology.as a woman, i'm very impressed and empowered by what you aresharing with us here today.

my question for you, came fromthe private sector, google, a disruptive company, the truthhow you're bringing destruction to the u.s. government and howyou will create a change. >> it's an honor to be hereworking for president and working for the country and inthese positions. we have so much resource in theu.s. government and so much talent that my college foundamazing. they know extraordinary things.so, we haven't had -- in the case of the the cto, he createdthis position.

it's a science advisor.we always had amazing science 28 and technology in our country.president washington started before the country was founded.so many great in science and tech and nasa is so much part ofthat heritage. right now more of our digitaltechy americans. he was at the south by southwestconference. we were in the art side and ourdesigners and coders. i need you to come in togovernment in rotation like the surgeon general, like ourlawyer, like our scientists and

economists and i need you to thecome. i need you to help me.>> so, modernizing the government.we were adding to them. the u.s. civil service at gsa,presidential invasion -- also technical cios.probably not -- the president was also asking, come and comesolve these harder problems because we need your skill mixedwith the others. world poverty, climate change,all these issues so we need all americans in.so he's collecting that group

now and it's been an honor to doit. our team is about the cut likeiq and eq and tq. making sure there's tq.people in the room so we are not leaving that out but thearchitecture is being influenced.we are doing awesome data plans and other systems.also to capacity built -- the government itself and we are inthe middle. build the american people.tech hire is an example of 29 makers using data science.all of those pieces -- i was

recently looking at we don'tcomment on the election but i e was watching some of thecandidates in west virginia and they ended up in a southerncounty and i remembered that my friend homer who wrote "rocketboy." was from there.the capacity building and i read some of the lines of peopletalking about poverty in that county.35% unemployment persistent. i went to go look at if it wasthe same county. that's where he grew up.amazing trained astronauts now.

it e had a part that said 25%unemployment and i noticed it was from president kennedy in1963. i noticed that president johnsonhad been at war on poverty there.it's interesting to see how homer having come out of thatand is there something that exactly what we're talkingabout. spaoeurpbed passion that --inspired person that anyone in that county could have so theywould transform their county and to think those across the wholenation be part of innovation

nation.pushing us to get broad band connecttiveties.put it in classrooms. we are in half the classrooms inhigh speed broad band. the fcc is no oh tkerpbizing,there's -- modernizing and there's great stuff going alonggetting americans back on high speed with the help.>> you discussed woman pioneers 30 and touched a bit in your lastanswer to this question as well. i would like to hear you a bitmore, what are the next frontiers for woman into nasaand in stem wear broadly?

>> oh, really.with a hundred science issues going on.jupiter is next. our frontier is boom, boom,boom. i want to give a shout out toall the nasa here and all the civil servants that are here.[ applause ] >> these are the unsung heroes.every day the last question, too.so partnering and joining forces and just knowing how honorableit is and the most humble people and wonderful woman and men thathave been able to join.

so, we're all going together.we want to take the world with us.i mentioned jupiter. we have the camp that is reallynice arriving in jupiter. open up that camp and say,world, where you want to point to jupiter?beyond that we are developing our system that gets us to earthin 2020. those are our explorationmissions and in 2030 we get to mars.and "voyageer" i can't believe how far it is out.it's amazing.

twenty years ago, there's awhole new discipline out there. they will get it right.we are finding all these new echo planets.>> the president has us u looking at artificialintelligence and machine 31 learning and creating publicengagements. we just posted here in d.c.,they are in partnership with all kinds of different partners, theuniversity of washington looked at ai for the policy.so getting more people involved in coding and data science workas we are doing today and

looking at what kind ofsolutions we with look and see in this data.the incredible work that nasa does to engage everyone.the citizen's work that we were just mentioning across all of usworking together where they will surround sensors and gatheringinformation on our own planet to know about water quality andwhat's going on in the oceans and anywhere in the world andalso out there. >> we may have time for one morequestion. >> it looks like we have a handup here.

thank you.>> thank you for taking the time to be here and inspiring thepeople if this room. from a story telling perspectiveyou speak about the importance of telling people about thingsthat they wouldn't otherwise know, in terms of the peoplesitting this room, what are some ways we can do that and reallycelebrate the people that are not necessarily seen doingamazing things. >> we had the first-ever whitehouse-a-thon. we had the african-american stemheroes.

people were online.they were doing their thing and just expanding people's pagesthat were too short for no good 32 reason and making sure that wehave all the the stories. we also did a fun thing calleduntold stories in stem. you find a hero of yours in anysector. you just record why you arepassionate about this person and they can tell their story andtell us and make sure it's there.a lot of the audio clips end up so it's been really great to seethat.

>> we do have woman at nasa andwe were telling our stories and you are all invited and we willdo the mash ups. they put my face on her picture.it gets a little freaky. we need to mash it up and befun. we need more music.we need more laughter and that's how we will begin so hard.>> and, just get up and do that. as you find people, share themaround and tell us and get them recorded and in the internet sothe people can find them. >> i was going to say, let'sgive them another round of

applause.>> thank you. . now, we are going in to ourlightning talk session. you'll hear from five womanabout initiatives at nasa to get woman and data newcomers oh useand interact with nasa data. first up is beth beck.she is the open invasion program manager from the nasa office ofthe chief information officer. beth will tell u about theinternational space challenge data boot camp.welcome back. [ applause ]>> we are so glad to have you 33

here.how many people went the to the state event yesterday.awesome. were still glowing.it was a great, wonderful, overwhelming day.we have some untold storys to tell you.i am thrilled to be here for the woman who have taken part fromsome of the the woman in data initiatives.we had three stories. the international space xchallenge, data boot camp and data and so there are threeinitiatives.

there are 16-year-old girls fromamman, jordon and came to the united states last summer andheard the stories of these three programs.they went back to jordan and created the first-ever space-xchallenge this year just from hearing our story.so, what is it? it's a hack-a-thon.it's 48 hours. 72 hours of hacking on data butto us it's our open data eupbt incubator.we wrap it in the context of a challenge so you can innovate inyour community.

it's open source.you can keep the solution but we can keep it too.that's the cool thing about open data source.what does data look like? is this compelling for you?some people love this and some people are like me are notcompeled to just looking at data.so what we do is we wrap it in the context of the challenge.this is my challenge. 34 if the rocket i.t.challenge and some people say why would you do that, that isdumbing down things for girls.

woman and girls that are alreadyengaged in data are already here.let's reach out to the ones that may or may not be interestedmany da and the let's see if we can bring them many and see thisbridge. so this challenge is to getgirls to engage their data. before i show you this nextvideo, the winner so, we had five global solutions.one of the winners was a winner because of this challenge sowhen you look at this the video, alex in the middle is a designerand she wrapped herself with two

coders and they told this reallyamazing story and they won. >> this is in the air and okayoxygen levels in the the blood. it also gives researches anaccurate picture and things technology.>> we added this socialhumanitarian component that makes it compelling.this is what we see when woman are part of teams.that extra point is for that. so the scopist -- this is ourfifth year. we had 15,000 par taste --participants.

they created around nasa data.the cool thing about it is we can be the challenge but it'slocal citizens who sign up to host the event.they are really the backbone. they are the ones in theircommunities in 61 countriess that say i will take myvolunteer effort and host this nasa event. 35we don't pay them. that's the cool thing with thenasa brand. people come to to us justbecause. one of the things, is not onlyis it a hack-a-thon and open

incubator, it's al a focus groupit tells us about our data. what tools do we need and who isusing the data. only 20% are woman.we looked at that and said why. why are 80% men coming in?>> the key studies, woman are looking for this welcomingenvironment and al looking for early access to learning newskills or engaging in teaming and before all the men come in.so we heard what we were not doing in the interview.we have a one-day event that we host before.we will not teach people to code

in one day.we introduced the concept and the concept is what is code,what is data, you saw megan pull out of her pocket.we want to demystify. we want to give some hands onability to try some things out. that's what we did for the lasttwo years. here's an example.if you will work with ka data, you will hear about the api.we don't want woman to say i don't know what that means.it's a way to call your data. it's a code and asking for theastronomy picture for the day.

you don't need to know how itworks the first time. you just need to know what it isso you don't feel uncomfortable and don't want to quit.that's what the boot camp does. now it's a weekend event. 36the data boot camp is a one-day event it aos a yearlong eventwhere we can bring in citizens to practice data sign skills.for the first year in order to provide this welcomingenvironment. we were all in and we had theleaders in the field and we went oh to them and said help us knowhow to create these initiatives

for your community members.we know how to do government but you know thousand do communityso -- but you know how to do communities.the second class you are about to kick off will be our betatesterss. we are trying to figure outthousand get more woman -- we are trying to figure out how toget more woman in data. apply this week.go to our web-site. if you look at the top, there'san an exployer event. please say you went to the stateof the woman event.

this is your chance to come takepart with us for our second chance.you will be the beta tester. please lower your expect --expectations. you will hear more and will tellyou their story along the way. thank you so much.[ applause ] >> our next presentation is frommichelle easter. she is a nasa jpl engineer.she spoke at the 2016 space app data boot camp in pasadena andled a popular start up station where she taught bionary code inten minutes.

welcome, michelle.[ applause ] >> hi, everyone. 37i'm michelle easter. i am the engineer but will leadup the to that story. i am honored to be here at thenasa headquarters. i am not over the shock.i was about 13 years and it was my first time ever steping in toa nasa center. i was an awkward preteen.that's okay. there's a little foreshadowing.that's me on the right. i have always been two parts.very much so a big part of my

mom.she's very friendly. she's here with us.hi, mom. always very supportive.did you make this dress or did grandma?at the same time i grew up on a farm and a total daddy's girland my dad was an industrial mechanic and a farmer.i followed him and help him take apart ma scenerys and --machinery and build things. as i got older, i didn'tunderstand that you can have both parts of the personalityand exist.

so i chose one and i ended upworking in a career in fashion. so, after i kpwrapblg waitedhigh school -- after i graduated i got a contract to go to southkorea to model. didn't think that was apossibility. i did it.i worked as a model it was incredible it was fun.i got to travel and meet creative people and i got tomake beautiful art. the top left is me in dubaidoing the runway. the bottom right that was in 38milan.

these are experiences that arevaluable. as i got older, i started torealize that i was missing this other part of me that wasequally as important to me as my femininity so i decided to tryengineering school. this is the best graphic that ican come up with to describe what it e was like to go toengineering. i started at 26 years old and ipromise you there's not anything about working as a fashion modelthat gives you an academically competitive advantage when youare trying to go in to

engineering school.it was ebg traoeplly challenge -- it was extremelychallenging for me but the most rewarding thing.when i finally graduated from college with my degree and a4.0gpa at the age of 39 years old.[ applause ] >> thank you.i never thought that was going to happen.my parents probably thought they never thought it would happeneither. fast forward, my degree got memore than the attention of

getting a degree -- my resume, ifocused so hard that it attracted the attention of thenasa laboratoriess. here is me when i wasinterviewing. i had that face all the time atwork. it is unbelievable.i'm still in shock. it's crazy.i was so inspired by my own experience. 39i was so blown away at the impact that getting my educationhad on my life and the future that it gave me that i neverthought i could have.

people ask me, "oh, you work fornasa. is that a dream come true?"the answer is, "no." i never thought it was possible.that was out of my scope. it is more than a dream cometrue. i was prompted to start anon-profit to encourage the other people to make the samediscovery of themselves. wind makers was last year whichis a non-profit initiative. our goal is to make engineeringapproachable as for other people that are from unconventionalbackgrounds that do not serve in

the stem field.we are doing it to work as a team of engineering to develop acurriculum where students can show up and receive mentorshipand work together to build hardware that plug in to alarger scale in engineering exhibit to engage the public inengineering but also to show them who is capable ofcontributing to this engineering.[ applause ] >> fur -- after the completionof the program, we want to encourage our alumni to turnaround and pay that back to the

community.we are encouraging them to host workshops with kids.that helps to reaffirm their known knowledge.. that also serves to help themdirectly in their classrooms. >> this was last december. 40-p this was from our team. to start this propagatingeducational initiative, we started with our own team.a lot of our own team are artists and not engineers butthey contribute lots of value to the organization.we taught them first and taught

them how to layout a circuit andwe all made remote control l.e.d.and bow ties.everyone was calling me. it was really empowering forthem. the next step are for thesepeople who jew learned new skills.we all held a workshop and took a girl scout troop and taughtthem how to make the same matching bow ties that we had.this saul working together. it was it was awesome.we spent the whole day with these girls, talking with themabout our jobs and helping them

get through this activity it wasreally incredible. this is us in the finish.and to the woman and da ta boot camp.they asked us to host a start up station.when i saw the motion, i i thought it is our mission.we want to engage people and make them feel confident, i cango in this arena and give it a try and it's something that ican learn. we set up an ebg size and calledit a -- we set up an exercise. we need more hardware.so for our start up station, we

had a ten-minute lesson inbianary. it's super simple a ten minutelesson in bianary. you can sign up to learn how to 41sawder. they are little circuits whereeach row has 8 leds. you can encode one letter in onebyte. if anybody wanted to come backwe will teach them how to convert their initials inbianary. pop the back off and drop it andsaunder them in to have each led in the circuit.i guess i u was shocked but

maybe we shouldn't be shocked.everybody came. i thought some people would benervous. everybody wanted to come.it was incredible. >> this cute little video.ⶠ>> it's short.that's what it looked like. everybody come in one room andwe will work it out. and the girl scout were theworkshop. they tw-r -- they were theleader. check this out. this is orange and glitter nailpolish.

this is a high school teachingcameron diaz how to sauder. they will never forget that theygot to do that it's such an awesome experience.we got to take our model and use the nasa woman in data boot campas a platform to exercise our model.what it allowed us to do is to reach woman, girls and all ages,all demographics and provide an opportunity for people to belearners and leaders no matter what their age are.it's what you have to know at the moment and sharing it.these are the all star girls.

by working together, we can all 42make up a brighter future. it's about working together andkeeping an open mind. [ applause ]>> thank you. michelle.now, i would like to introduce tina lai.she also lives in pasadena. she participated in a boot camp.this is a first time in a data hack-a-thon.let's find out how that works. >> hello, everyone.i want to thank beth. i never thought the first time iwent that i would be invited to

d.c.and come.i'm giddy now so thank you. this is what i did before istarted programming. i got a degree in college whichis the picture on the left. that's me printing in my friend'garage. you can see the prints up there.that's where i started. when i was growing up, i reallyloved drawing but before that, i remember when you have to rightthe essay when you're younger, "what you want to be when yougrow up?" i wanted to be an inventor.i can make anything up on a

piece of paper.that is the direction that i went and i chose print making.you can produce your art and not jew make one you -- not justmake one you can make so many copies.you can change it for other people.after school i explored different interest, i loveanimals so i got certified to become a animal massagetherapist. that was me. 43it was fun and i loved learning about animals and theirdifferent language and how to

communicate.after doing that for a couple years, it was really rewardingin the sense that i'm providing relief to the animals but formyself i felt unchallenged mentally.the pivot came in 2014 before christmas my mom died becauseafter her second chemo, she was immune system -- any infectionand she passed away and that with us the big thing in my lifethat led me questioning, what am i even doing?is anything worth it. through a friend who gave me anidea.

why don't you try programming?i needed a career and figure out what to do with my life.after my friend gave me this idea, programming, what is it.i went online and did some coding school online which isfree, by the way if you wanted to check it out.i realized that this is -- i really missed the problemsolving and digging into something and sitting many frontof the computer and thinking about something so long andtrying to solve one problem and you realize you misspelledsomething.

i can't do anything -- i'm sodumb to i'm a genius i fixed this problem.i thought programming was challenging because even thoughi love math before i never wanted to only do math throughout the rest of my life, but what inspired me and what ididn't realize that is i went on doing programming is that i was 44able to connect with my mom and have the new relationship withher because this is her on the right -p and in this is back inthe '80s and she was a programmer back in the day andshe worked for at&t developing

the -- which every up with usesthe now. the program for transferringcell signals from tower to tower.this is pretty amazing that i went all around and not wantingto do what my mom did and ended up doing what my mom did.i want to say, even though my mom didn't push me to, you haveto follow me, she did teach me a valuable lesson.ty have two brothers. -- i have two brothers.i wasn't never treated differently.you have to be logical.

there' math in everything weused to hate that. oh, mom, again?there's math in everything. she showed me through her ownexample that it doesn't matter who you are or if you're a girlor boy you can do whatever you want to do.so fast forward, i went after learning programming on my own iactually went to an execellerateed program and thisis the first hack-a-thon with the space-x challenge.it was exciting. i was near vow and i look -- iwas nervous and i went up and

thought can i do it.i thought there's a boot camp the day before and so, i went tothat but i wanted to introduce my teammate.this is my girlfriend emily in the middle. 45were both went to the same execellerateed program.we are very new. we changed our careers.we all studied different things before and went to the challengeand emily is actually a background painter and animationso she has no idea about coding. this is the icon in our app.it doesn't matter your

background.if you know how to tell stories and how to design.her designs is the one that aracketed the judge's --attracted the judges a bit more. she designed them herself sothat it's easy for anyone, even if you don't speak english to beable to recognize what it means. also the other consideration isfor color blind people that even if it ao black and white it aovery easy to read. that's something that wewouldn't never thought of and that' something that i thinkpeople with backgrounds can

bring to the space-x challenge.you have something to contribute.>> this is from the boot camp and one of the reasons i went isbecause when i u was researching the data knots, i learned thatit had a lot of interactive electronic paper.so, it's paper, she printed on it.you can be -- she has a dj deck your can mix music and there'sdifferent things. that, to me was like oh my godyou are my hero. that's whey wanted to -- that'what i e wanted to do with my

art.so, going back a little bit and in college i took an electronic 46sculpture class. that is the seed also of metransitioning into programming because i worked with them andlearned to sawder and what a circuit is and take thingsapart. that's always been what i wasinterested in and i always liked taking dish used to take myalarm part. i fixed my old cell phone.i don't want to pay anyone to do this so i looked it up on youtube and you tube has

everything.so, whatever your interests is, you can bridge it withtechnology. here's michelle shop.it is insanely popular. i happen to be in the deskoutside but it was amazing. those girls are really cool andthey are so excited to be part of it.this is me on the desk. i wept to a full circle but i'mstill the person and i want to be hands on and making things.i think that everybody can learn that, too.thank you.

next up is jerelyn rodriguez.she lives in new york where she is co-founder and ceo of theknowledge house. a non-profit that engages youthsin the south bronx. she par tastetist pateed -- shepa*r teus pateed -- she parties tate batheed.>> thank you. >>[ applause ] .>> thank you so much. so my story starts with kit. 47it is a national network of topper forming chatter schools.i am a guinea pig.

the south bronx is one of thepoorest congressional districts in the country so it wasimportant for my mom who at the time was a public schoolteacherto make sure that i was receiving the best educationthat my neighborhood can offer. so because of it, i've hadaccess to so many opportunities, enrichment, great teachers, apathway into college. growing up, i always realizedthat i was receiving a different education than my peers in myneighborhood but it wasn't until i was transitioning into collegethat i started getting a full

understanding of educationaldisparities. so, i was on my first collegeinterview and i just happened to stumble upon a conference actthe achievement gap. it was the first time that iheard that 1 # 0% of people from low income communities graduatefrom college. this was striking.i was living in an impoverished neighborhood.i learned about the numbers. this statistic changed my lifebecause from that day on when i was in college and during myearly career, i i was motivated

daily to figuring out what i cando to make sure that the 90% of kids in my neighborhood thatweren't going to succeed in college had an alternativepathway. so, i co-founded a non-profitorganization called the knowledge house.we provide tech education and job training primarily in the 48bronx to to make sure they have success.we do this by organizing the the local invasion economy so that ican convene educators, industry stake holders and otherresources that will provide

alternative pathways to thaoeyoung adults. a year ago, i became a data knot.[ applause ] >> and this is me at the podiumat civil hall. i e was speaking at the thespace-x challenge and i urged the girls to think of data, notonly as analyzing, graphs, analyzing research but data isabout learning from people, listening and telling theirstories. so, i was so inspired to be inthis community of data knots. they were makers, corporateprofessionals, they were data

scientists that were using dataand tech for good. it really motivated me to goback to my neighborhood and be more intentional about how i wasusing data with my students. so, these are some of mystudents and we literally youed data every day.when i went back to the bronx, i revisited this issue of out ofschool and out of work youth. in the bronx, we have thehighest rate of 16-24-year-olds that are unemployed and not inschool. that's 36% so this' very high.i engaged my young adults.

four of my job trainings inparticular and we started storming around this issue and iasked them how do we reconnect and reengage this interview sothat they can go back to school and take advantage of the 49opportunities and the tech sector.so we partnered with the data consultant and we launched adesign challenge. my four students askedthemselves and their peers what are the challenges andopportunities that young people face when they are seeking jobs.this is the data that they

collected. so we created a mindset map of the feelings and behaviors that young people havein relation to educational achievement and the job searchprocess. so you have things here aboutbeing nervous. you have things here aboutpaying student loans, not being able to finish school becauseyou are in debt without finishing college and what'sinteresting is they took that data and they idiated thisprotoe type. so in february they launched amentor app.

so this is the design and theapp lets mentees know what their growth areas are, what theirstrengths are in terms of career readiness and it matches them tothe right mentor at the right tech company.what's exciting about this product is it's still indevelopment but since february, my students have already served60 mentors and mentees in mentorship programs so we're ontrack so we're on track to launching this tool and scalingit. it's just exciting that thistool came from the young people.

that we intend to serve.this isn't the only way that we're using data. 50as part of our program, we motivate our students with data.during orientation, we review poverty rates, unemploymentrates, as a community we need to understand how urgent theseissues are and how, as a collective we can work togetherto problem solve. throughout their trainingprogram, our students help each other persist because we reviewlabor market data all the time. they know that there will be1.4 million jobs in just four

years and know that 44 this% ofthese jobs don't require a college credential.at the end of the program, our students are tasked withcreating tech products that are addressed a user or communityneeds. so they are taking data,validating problems and idiating data-driven solutions.this is one example here. one of our top technologyistswas hired by noah to create a video game that raises awarenessabout ocean and climate data. this is just one example.our students are creating mobile

apps that raise awareness aboutschool bullying. ty urge you all to -- i urge youall to empower young people to data and information so they cansolve their own problems and i look forward to engaging withthe nasa community to start tinkering with nasa data so itbecomes more accessible to those communities that we serve aswell. thank you.[ applause ] >> thank you.our last speaker is from dr. shobhana gupta. 51she manages the health and air

quality portfolio for theapplied the sciences program. she was a first time owner inthis years space app challenge and was in new york city.welcome. >> thank you.>> hi, everyone. it has been an inspiring day.this is amazing. just listening to my colleaguestalk about my work. it's been incredible and i'msure a lot of you are as inspired and ready to go out anddo new things like i am. i am a aaa science andtechnology fellow here at nasa.

i grew up in india and i livedin new dheli null i was 15 years old in my family.i am obsessed with my photos. . i was very fortunate.when you have cute baby photos you just focus on the earlyones. i was fortunate to have amazingparents. that's my mother up in the topright and she used to read me stories about brave woman when iwas young. both my parents, my dad and momhad so much faith in me and so many expectations, too.with their support, and also

with that of a very amazinglittle brother, i grew up with a solid foundation and selfconfidence and megan mentioned self confidence earlier today.i want to say how amazing it was to have that from the verybeginning from my parents. so in 1 0th grade, myparents moved to a small town in tennessee.it's a really small town. it was hard transitioning to a 52new place. it's a wonderful place withamazing, kind and caring people. that made the move very easy.i was at the medical school, i

was there for 12 years.i think i owe them a first born. moving to a new environmentwhether it's moving to a new location or going from highschool to college is hard. i was able to cultivatementorships to me. it fort identified that selfconfidence that my family instilled in me.that became very important. as i made various career.when i moved from the medical school to the research lab.instead of practicing, i wanted to do research.there war lot of challenges in

the shape of negativity and justfear of failure and doubt but it's that self confidence thatmy family and my friends -- the confidence that they haveinstilled in me that allowed know continue to stand andcontinued to keep moving forward.no matter how many times people say good things to you, even onenegative comment can undo years of good things that you havegoing on. one teacher saying somethinglike, "you can't do this "which unfortunately i had this.or what you are doing is

important enough.those can really under mine years of self confidence.fit wasn't having -- if it wasn't having a great foundationfrom my parents they would have only eroded a little bit.some stuck around. it's important when we talk to 53woman, especially young girls to start from the very beginningand make sure we build that self confidence in them.>> after medical school i attended yale.i wanted to broaden my scope of study.i wanted to go from one disease

to looking at the bigger pictureand how i can make a difference on the larger scale.i joined this group known as the the yale sign diplomate and howwe can u use the science that we have in place.i got so hooked with all the the local and state and nationalissues, that i wanted to see how i can make this the next step ofmy career. so, i looked for opportunitiesand i head art the aaa science and technology policy fellowshipwhich i'm in today through the american sober kwraeug throughassociation for science.

here i am here today at nasa.an awkward and roundabout way to get here.so, about four months in my fellowship i get an e-mail frommy boss. this is after the holidays.there's a program known as the space app challenge would youlike to be the team lead for the art t challenges category.i heard of space app challenge here at nasa but i'm not acoder. i am not a maker.i took a metal shop once but the only thing i made was a blockwith smooth edges.

i have no hardware ebgkpwraoerpbgs -- experience here. this is a great learningopportunity and let me see what i can learn from these people 54who are creating amazing things every day.i joined the talent but wanted to see what i could bring to thetable so i said okay i will do the challenge but i want tocreate my own challenge and what we had people do was look at airquality data and see how we can relate that to things andsymptoms that we see and feel. if you see air quality and youhave a stuffy nose or have

trouble breathing.aim proud to say it it was most popular challenge this year fromall the challenges, thank you. and this is one of thesolutions. >> the risk of public health ishighest in developing nations who lack access to current airquality and information. >> we compare data from nasa andthe air quality monitoring staying anywhere in the world.our web portal makes pollution con send traeugs easilyavailable to those who need it most.>> we pulled real time from

twitter and used machinelearning to better understand the reshra*eupgs between airquality and public health. >> this is one of the challengesthat won the best use of data award this year.really great job. as part of the the challenge, imet laura doyle. she is a 9-year-old and she ledher challenge. >> think hard.two hours a day just to keep safe.we are making it fun. my name is laura doyle.i'm nine.

our team -- 55>> yeah. >> if you were one of the thetop 25 semifinalists. it showed me that anyone can dothis. this is a safe place for men andwoman to come together and gain the confidence to become futureleader and innovators. i have been lucky to have reallyinspiring people and supportive people.this is my mom who was amazing. i am now out learning code.i am excited. there are free resores outthere.

if you want to do it.i used to be a tkhapl onfor all things data and now i can't waitto be part of it and so can you so thank you.>> thank you dr. gupta. let's hear from some more womanfrom nasa. >>> it continues inspires girlsin the space program. aim so thankful to engineers whoare the first woman to oversee the launch team.>> being the launch director is pretty exciting.we will have a vehicle that is over 300 feet tall.i can't wait to see that.

it's going to be amazing.you couple that with the state or the art spacecraft alliance.the destination and capabilities that the people in our agencyare. it's something amazing.being in charge of the launch team on the launch day issomething that i am very much look forward to.i look forward to seeing our team in action.i look forward to looking out the window and engaged in that 56vehicle as it stands ready to launch.>> learn more about heroic woman

like her at nasa.gov.>> and, now we are ready to hear from our speakers for the q&asession. i will take advantage of myposition as moderator to kick it off with a question.this is for all of you. one of our goals for this ventis to spark ideas for people to take back to their ownorganizationsations and communities.if you have one take away. everyone watching to take backto their communities or organization -rgs what would itbe?

>> when he start with that.>> i know i answered earlier. we want to know about yourcommunities and we think -- if you are reaching out to girlsand woman you should know about the girls and woman that you arealso reaching out to. if you can find a way to reallytaylor whatever you're doing. we can share that.if we figured it out, we will put nit a tool kit.there's so much we don't know how to do.you can learn from each other. the biggest point is to beintentional.

if you are reaching out to theloss, who ever your lost community is, go into thecommunity and ask them what do they want?what does it take for them to come to you and then build it.we don't know thousand get woman to engage in data.help us understand your community. 57it's fine to say i don't know how to do it.go find out. and when you figure it out, tellus. >> the number one thing i feelin everything we have done to

engage girls and woman.remember to be human when you're working with them.allow yourself to have a personality and have that shinethrough so it's relatable and approachable.more appropriately being human is is being okay with beingvulnerable. none of us are perfect.i am a nasa engineer. i don't know everything.i'm okay that i'm learning things.i think that's an important example to set when you try toinspire other people the to get

into it.wow, a nasa engineer cares about me learning but i'm comfortabletalking to her and asking her questions because she used to belearning, too. just remember to bring thathuman element to the table so people will feel comfortable.>> and tina? >> i think for me whatrepresentation it is for me when going to the learning talk inthe boot camp. i see people like michelle whohas a different background and i resonate with that.whatever it is that you are

trying to reach out to.woman only like fashion -- i love orange.anyways. represent your interest becausemore than likely someone else will share your interest. 58can i just add one point? i heard about this blind guy.he did not fit in any stereotypes.he can ride a bike and turn around and everything.don't think woman can't do this or that.that's one of the things that i was never restricted and thathelped me tran seug and go --

transition and go in to tech orwhatever you want to go into. >> on that note, if i can be adumb model, you broke that stereotype.anybody can do that anything you want you just have to want thetry. >> now, you're a super smartmodel. >> i would urge alloff again toempower young people. let them power ourselves withthe right tools, information and technology to be inveightors andbe leaders and solving our own problems, our community'sproblems.

society is getting crazy butthere's e an excellent group of woman here that can take mattersin their own hands and best mentioned earlier, woman aremore social minded. we like oh give back so it'svery critical that we start empowering girls and woman withthese tools so we can be the lead eer to solve tomorrow'sproblems because were awesome and we should do that.it's important for us to support each other.not just when people are starting out but through toughtimes.

we think that people who do datawere born. that's not true. 59everybody goes through challenges and difficult times.you will all face challenges when you try something.it's okay. every pod does this but if youkeep working hard you can fix on whatever you put your mind to.as a group of woman we can all make it through.>>> i would like to -- if you have noticed -- in each one ofthe stories they all had pivots. they are okay.what we learned is that woman --

i hate doing stereotypes.woman don't want to be in to one thing.at the data boot camp. we have them talk about our lifehacks. it's okay to not do one thingfor the rest of your life. maybe you started and then youmoved in to policy which is the funniest one to me but so glad.it's okay and okay for you to allow your communities to sayyou can do this and this. it's not this or this.you pick up another skill that we hope is coding.>> so one of the the

steppingstones to me is going tothe boot camp is i read one -- is that none of us know what weare doing. that gave me the courage, idon't know but they don't either.we will all learn from each other.u just from my experience in the coding school and we have agroup of 23 people and only four of them are woman but we arevery supportive. people tend to say theyunderstand until we are 99% sure. 60>> very different than a lot of

men.>> yeah. i am listening to them and halfway through you have no idea what you're saying.i know more than you. trust yourself more and don'tlisten to the guys. just kidding.>> it pays to sit in the front row.>> you are in our favorite color orange right here.>> the common thread i heard running through is confidence.i know a lot of woman whether they are woman or young girlshave issues with confidence.

that's something that yourbackground really gave to you that helps you move forward.my first question is what is something that you held outthere who doesn't have confidence to help her movethrough that and then the second one is -- are you ever too oldto do that because i'm a little bit older -- and i'm a techygirl. those are my two questions.>> i want to answer my number one.what to tell girls. no one knows how to do life.no one knows how to parent.

no one knows how to study or goto mars. we kind of but not raeplly.the biggest thing is no one knows how to do this thingcalled life. figure it out and no one hasthaoe answers. the thing is no one can tell youdon't know how the to do your own life.just do your homework. woman do their homework. 61we stay up in the middle of the night and do that thing becausewe want to know what it is. it's okay oh to not know and askquestions.

it's okay to be who you are andwe are going to help you do what you want to do and help youfigure out the resores to do that thing.sop the part about being too old -- we have several answersfor this. >> when i first started college,i had to take a bunch of math classes obviously as anengineer. there was this one guy who satin the front and took notes and he answered all the the questionright and that man had to be the 80 years old.>> she was probably like 40.

he was out there.i don't know if he wanted a career change.you are never too old to learn. although 31 is not that old forgraduating. i found out that going backlater in life it wasn't anybody telling me to do it.it was decision i made for myself.i was so much more motivated and i think that's why i did everthan i could have ever imagined because it was all for me.>> i want to address the confidence.>> they made some craters in

that confidence.they took chunks out. on top of that, they have curvepals and other things. there were times where i didn'tfeel confident. i can tell you the resourcesthat i found useful in that time and that might be something that 62you want to share with girls who don't have the same experiences.spend some time -- we don't -- what am i not doing.if there nothing there to please you -- i will look in the mirrormyself. it is so weird but there aretimes where you have to do that.

i have an amazing husband whosupports me. even when they were saying theright things i it wasn't enough. finding things that make youhappy. focus on what makes you happyand success will follow that. making people that it's okay tobe you. and being happy with yourself.that is the first step to make people just be happy and thenthe confidence will come. >> and having parents -- if youdon't have parents find some mentors but having the parentswho do tell girls you can be who

ever you want to be and societywill tell them you can't. that's the truth but being theparents if you are a parent if you can just instill in yourkids no matter what you do, we love you.>> i think those foundations. in the audience.everyone of of you. we heard that yesterday a lot.michelle obama said know yourself.if you know who you are -- you are good.>> i want to say on the note was young girl's and confidence.i think it's important to let

young girls know that we werejust kwrourpbg girls and it's not easy for young girls in mysituation. i think that reminding them that 63you understand that feeling and that you had to go through yourteenage years that were painful and can look at you as the examas something that came up on the other end that is positive.that is something, too. so, i think we have morequestions. we will take one last questionin the front row. >> it's been amazing and seeingall the the great on stage to

know we are rolling around inself development. my question is regarding whatyou are facing in the real world now and what advice you givegirls and woman regarding the obstacless you're facing.with all the noise around the world, how do you stay focused.>> we get blasted about e-mails every day about conferences andtalks and opportunities. it's great to have thoseopportunities but sometimes it is a little -- this looks soguide want to focus on this. it becomes hard to identifywhere should i concentrate on.

i have been working on this.as i go back and -- i have little bullet points ofindividual things. there's no meat on them.what i try to do is have two or three ideas that i am reallyexcited about and maybe leave room for one more if somethingexciting comes along the way. i can divide my time andresources and focus on those. >>> it is challenging because inmoments of leadership when i'm in the meeting either closing adeal or fund raising, very often i'm the only female.not only am i a female i'm black

and a millennium and usually the 64other people are older white men.i'm sure these are challenges that we have all facedespecially as we're in the technology space.this relates to the question about confidence.when you are the only female in the room.you might see that as a setback but very important to seewhatever unique unique qualities you as a personal asset.so any time that i'm in a room full of a bunch of white men.i am the ebg pert on

millennials.aim the expert on females and on people of color.so i'm guessing the glass half full and always positionsyourself to be the person with the answers and be the value addso people are coming to you for answers.we have so much time in your life to do the things that youwant to do with your life. if i can leave you with that onepowerful word we should just practice it.can you stay word? no.thank you for joining me and one

more round of applause for ourspeakers. >> is it possible to addsomething for people thinking of changing their careers.>> thank you everyone. this is wonderful.it's great for me to have all of us up here together.these what it's about. thank you for joining us today.i started seeing one of my heroes eleanor roosevelt whosaid the future belongs to the beauty of your dreams. 65always believe in your dreams. just turn them in to reality.one of the special things about

nasa in the footsteps of ourwoman pioneers that we are watching every day.among the footsteps i am proud to welcome in.that's our first woman astronaut group.you might not know. it's not about being first.when we stop counting numbers we will know we have arrived whenwhen we don't have to count. thank you.i know that sally and judy are looking down at us saying whatan awesome group gathered here at nasa.they are all inspiring and

giving their life for us andmany others to inspire us u. that's what they want us to dois overcome all the challenges and overcome those obstacless.you get back up and it sure helps if you have a friendpatting you on the back and saying you are great.helping you get back up just to go to the next step.i think were all here today. we have a specialresponsibility. i know i do.the responsibility to inspire, to encourage and mentor it's allabout the next generation of

girls and woman which i call ournext generation. we are here.that's why do i what i do every day.not for me but for the next generation.lucky for us, we are looking for new heights and think about outof this world. we have space exploration and 66cleaning energy and water. it's what we need to change thisconversation and make diversity and ebg lens obtain tk-rbgexcellence and obtain the goal. it's all of us and a shout outto all the the men who joined us

today, too.thank you because you empower us.[ applause ] >> keep in mind, we don't wantto say good-bye to you yet. we have an e-mail that we hopethat you will join us to come up to the hills to congress.you're invited to our science on the hill.a group of us will walk up thereafter.we get to talk about big data and immerse yourself from earthagain to climate to jupiter to mars and beyond and light ourscience on the hill.

that is going to be whenever weget up there 3:30-7:00. there's food and drinks from5:00-7:00 in case you're thinking about it.we hope that you'll be part of our effort to inspire more youngwoman to reach for new heights. whether this means pursuing acareer in art or design or just having the courage that we justtalked about and the answers but the opportunity to take those apcomputer science tests, to fill out that college application orapply for our astronaut care. start that small business.you have great examples with us

here today to go thousand thatpromotion. we really need thatencouragement and need that mentoring.for the mars generation i want to invite you out to check out 67our resores at intern.nasa.gov. please check that out for thenot-so-young folks in the audience.let's see what you're doing. we know we can leverage andreach more synergys. so then join us atwoman.nasa.gov jew to learn more about the great resores we have.more stories and incredible

woman.that's our first. . second is we want you to partof our journey to mars. our plan is to send to the redplanet and to do so we need everyone of you.>> we need the physical tharapist. elizabeth is here andthe reason i -- here she is. we all need heroess.we all need mentors. you can never stop reaching forthat next mentor. i was assigned a mentor.you might imagine how well that went.>> good try.

i was one of 35 woman.so seek out those mentors. just see who they can talk to.see who they can relate to. >> people don't say no.>> you have to sometimes be proactive when you are lookingfor those mentors and who you inspire to learn about thosestories. them back to mars. .the first step of being in mars is believing in ourselves.i'm so hopeful. this is something that nasa willlead paoeupt. it is not one neigh an tkeurbtao not just one nation and one

country it's global.we will have no limits on our curiosity. 68we can eliminate them by new thinking.let's give ourself goals. . 50% within a decade.you can send a man to the moon. these obstacless are absolute.i can tell you that president obama and the first lady aredoing everything they can that' why we're all gathered heretoday is for empowerment. we can really looking forward inan american society for all. so, thank you for joining us andhonored to be served and be at

nasa.he likes to tell young people and never listens to anyone whosay you don't belong. that's great advice.you don't look like that. that's love, discover andinnovate. i have had that far long time.don't be too come kphraeuted about thing -- don't be toocomplicated about things. follow your passion and we willall be very successful. thank you for joining us andbeing part of the united state of woman.we will leave you with the great

words.don't give up trying what you really want to do.when there's love and inspiration i don't think youcan go wrong and i think she was right.i hope you can join us in giving yourself a big round of applausefor joining us. thanks to all the organizationsand you inspire all the woman at nasa.thank you very much. [ applause ]