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Black Girls Code is using ‘Hidden Figures’ to inspire young girls to enter the STEM fields

• In partnership with 20th Century Fox, Black Girls Code created FutureKatherineJohnsons.com. 
• The website highlights 14 young girls pursuing STEM fields and explains how Hidden Figures inspired them to break barriers. 
• The website’s namesake, Johnson, was a black NASA research mathematician who calculated the trajectories and return paths that led to John Glenn’s successful NASA mission in 1962. Read more

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