Katherine Johnson as a character in the Oscar nominated movie “Hidden Figures”

Use this video to raise pupils awareness of women dedication for science and the respect and recognition of their accomplishments by the society.

What is it about?

NASA commemorated the many contributions of retired mathematician Katherine Johnson to America’s space program during a building dedication ceremony on May 5, at the agency’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.

Langley’s new Katherine G. Johnson Computational Research Facility was formally dedicated to the venerated mathematician and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient.

Johnson worked at Langley from 1953 until her retirement in 1986, beginning as a research mathematician -- part of a pool of women hired to perform mathematical equations and calculations by hand for engineers. She quickly distinguished herself and was permanently assigned to the branch that would later calculate the launch windows for NASA’s first Project Mercury flights.

How to use it?

Intersectional racialized sexism and gendered racism are emphasized. As counselors teachers will do themselves, and their students good service by seeing the movie and engaging in in-depth discussions about the many implications of the movie.