Showing results for "Girls" in Science & Technology

In 1938, a young German rocket enthusiast named Wernher von Braun had dreams of building a rocket that could fly him to the moon. In Ray, North Dakota, a young farm girl named Mary Sherman was attending high school. In an age when girls rarely dreamed of a career in science, Mary wanted to be a chemist. A decade later, the dreams of these two disparate individuals would coalesce in ways neither could have imagined.

Kari Byron—former host of the wildly popular, iconic cult classic MythBusters—shows how to crash test your way through life, no lab coat required. Kari Byron’s story hasn’t been a straight line. She started out as a broke artist living in San Francisco, writing poems on a crowded bus on...

The Girl Explorers is the inspirational and untold story of the founding of the Society of Women Geographers - an organization of adventurous female world explorers - and how key members served as early advocates for human rights and paved the way for today's women scientists by scaling mountains, exploring the high seas, flying across the Atlantic, and recording the world through film, sculpture, and literature.

The riveting true story of the women who launched America into space. In the 1940s and 50s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate velocities and plot trajectories, they didn't turn to male graduates. Rather, they recruited an elite...

Sie sind ins All geflogen, haben den Erdball umsegelt und die höchsten Gipfel bestiegen. In allen Ländern, zu allen Zeiten gab es Frauen, die mutige Vorreiter waren, neugierige Entdeckerinnen, kluge Forscherinnen und kreative Genies. Als passionierte Aktivistinnen protestierten und kämpften sie gegen Ungerechtigkeit, als Wissenschaftlerinnen erforschten sie unbekannte Pflanzen und gefährliche Tiere. Dieses Hörbuch versammelt 100 Geschichten über beeindruckende Frauen, die jedem Mädchen Mut machen, an seine Träume zu glauben.