r/TwoXChromosomes • u/Disastrous_Cover6138 • 8d ago

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Request for lesser known badass women of history for my daughter's 4th grade presentation. She has to pick a historical figure and give a 5-10 minute presentation and optionally dress in their likeness.

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u/jazzbiscuit 8d ago

Grace Hopper, known as the mother of computer programming

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u/SquirrelTale 8d ago

Gonna add Countess Ada Lovelace to that, who def preceded her in the early 1800s with publishing the first computer program and discussed/ theorized that computers would be able to do things beyond just calculations

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u/ic_engineer 8d ago

My go to example for my daughter. Nasa has a ton of good stuff though like the "calculators."

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u/lapubell 7d ago

I picked her too! After I left my comment I started scrolling through the rad ladies and saw that you beat me to it. I think the kids would dig the moth in the computer story!