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Ou Td O O Rs Entrepreneurship Is your troop working on a Badge or Journey this March? We have created a list of just a few of the women who have contributed to history and our lives today. If your troop is Girls might want to learn about… working on… Environmental Scientists • Rachel Carson, biologist who studied effects of pesticides on the environment • Dian Fossey, research who studied mountain gorillas and their habitat Environmental • Jane Goodall, primatologist who studied chimpanzees Science Badges • Caroline Hershel, discovered a comet, and contributed to the discovery of Uranus • Xilinshi, discovered how to produce silk from silkworms • Wangari Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Movement in Kenya which focused on reforestation and sustainable land use Outdoor Adventurers • Clare Marie Hodges, first National Park Service ranger • Outdoors Arlene Blume, mountaineer • Sacagawea, guide and interpreter for Lewis and Clark Outdoor • Gertrude Ederle, first woman to swim the English Channel Adventure • Emma Gateway, first woman to hike the Appalachians Trail Badges solo • Barbara Hillary, first African American woman and oldest person to reach the North and South Poles • Bessie Colman, Aviatrix specializing in stunt flying, parachuting, and aerial tricks Business Owners • Cher Wang, co-founder of HTC, mobile tech company • Madam C.J. Walker, hair-care entrepreneur, one of the first Entrepreneurship female self-made millionaires Badges • Coco Chanel, fashion entrepreneur • Ruth Handler, inventor of Barbie and co-founder of Mattel • Oprah, multi-media entrepreneur • Sandra Lerner, co-founder of Cisco System Entrepreneurship 1 Computer Scientists and Programmers • Ada Lovelace, writer of the first algorithm • Grace Hopper, designer of the first compiler for a programming language • Margaret Hamilton, programmer of onboard flight software for the Apollo mission computers • Erna Schneider Hoover, writer of software that replaced the telephone switchboard • Radia Perlman, designer of the Spanning Tree Protocol, which Think Like A maps computers together, necessary for the internet Programmer • Carol Shaw, first female video game designer Journey • Sarah Allen, co-founder of a software company and lead developer of Flash • Katherine Johnson, calculator of important information for ath (STEM) ath America’s first manned mission in space, and pioneer for NASA’s use of computers to run calculations, featured in the M movie Hidden Figures • Erica Baker, engineer at Google, Slack, and Patreon and an advocate for pay transparency and equality • America and Penelope Lopez “the CyberCode Twins”, coders and competitors in tech competitions and hackathon Inventors and Engineers • Emily Roebling, first women engineer and technical leader of the Brooklyn Bridge ngineering, & ngineering, • Stephanie Kwolek, inventor of Kevlar E • Martha Coston, inventor of signaling flares • Mary Anderson, inventor of the windshield wiper • Julia Morgan, Architect and designer of earthquake resistant buildings Think Like An • Mary Walton, inventor of a device to collect emissions from Engineer Journey factories to improve the air • Patricia Bath, inventor of a laser tool that corrects cataracts echnology, echnology, • Marie Van Brittan Brown, inventor of closed circuit TV T security system • Azza Abdel Hamid Faiad, invented a process to turn plastic into bio-fuel • Shirley Jackson, inventor of fiber optic cables • Deepika Kurups, inventor of a solar powered water cience, cience, purification system S Scientists • Marie Curie, Nobel Prize winning scientist in the field of radioactivity Think Like A • Jennifer Doudna, developer of CRISPR, a genetic editing tool Citizen Scientist • Sara Seager, astronomer who discovered 715 planets • Jane Cooke Wright, doctor who began testing individualized chemotherapy treatments • Vera Rubin, proved dark matter exists 2 Artists • Frida Kahlo, painter • Elaine Sturtevant, artist specializing in appropriation art and conceptual art • Bridget Riley, abstract artist specializing in optical illusions • Georgia O’Keeffe, painter in the American Modernism movement • Yuu Watase, Manga Artist Singers/Musicians • Dolly Parton, singer and philanthropist • Demi Lovato, singer and activist for mental health and body image • Zendaya, singer and actress • Beyoncé, singer and entrepreneur Dancers Self-Expression • Misty Copland, ballerina Badges • Ginger Rogers, actress and dancer • Irene Castle, ballroom dancer The Arts The • Martha Graham, “Mother of Modern Dance” • Josephine Baker, dancer in vaudeville and on Broadway Authors • J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series • Jane Austen, author of novels including Pride and Prejudice • Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein • Agatha Christie, author of mystery novels • Octavia E. Bulter, science fiction author • Maya Angelou, author and poet • Isabel Allende, author of novels including The House of Spirits • Sandra Cisneros, author of novels, including The House on Mango Street • Nnedi Okorafor, author of the Binti science fiction novels 3 Chefs • Julia Child, cooking show personality and cook book author • Clare Smyth, Britain’s first female chef to run a 3 Michelin star restaurant • Alice Waters, early promoter of organic and locally sources Health Living ingredients Badges (cooking, Athletes • Serena Williams, tennis player fitness) • Lindsey Vonn, downhill skier • Simone Biles, gymnast • Jackie Joyner-Kersee, long jumper • Katie Ledecky, swimmer • Mia Hamm, soccer player Activists Life Skills Life • Malala Yousafzai, advocate for educating girls Advocacy • Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady, outspoken about women’s issues and human rights Badges, • Coretta Scott King, advocate for Civil Rights and women’s Journeys, or rights Awards • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author • Sophie Scholl, Anti-Nazi activist • Dolores Huerta, labor and civil rights activist 4 .
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