Layla Henning Diversity in Technology

Diversity in Technology              Katherine Johnson , one of three black students to attend West Virginia's graduate college, worked for the NASA space program for 33 years. During her 33 years of employment, she was considered to be a, "human computer" according to her co-workers. Johnson was extremely talented and used her skills in math to calculate angles and trajectories for early NASA flights. Katherine Johnson took interest in her lifelong career when a family member mentioned to her that the predecessor to NASA was hiring. Instead of allowing under-representation push her away from her interest in the job, she used it as motivation. African Americans only amount to 4% of workers in technology, therefore when people such as Katherine Johnson do remarkable things to advance technology, they're less likely to get the credit they deserve and it'll go to someone more known.       Louis von Ahn , a Guatemalan entrepreneur,...