In Computer Science we you get to go deeper into the study of computers and computational systems. In unit 4 we learned about the founding mothers of technology. This stuck out to me because there were a lot of women that helped with making the technology we have today. During this time, these women had to deal with bias and they were required to have special skills. These women also needed to be confident in their work because a lot of lives depended on it. For example, Margaret Hamilton developed a software that would recognize error messages and find solutions so she dealt with high risk for errors. She also had to find a way to fix a problem if buttons were pushed in the wrong order so for this she needed to be a quick thinker. Another example is Katherine Johnson, who was a brilliant mathematician who was also a black woman during the time when NASA was mostly white men. These are just some examples of what they had to do and the skills they needed.

Learning about these women and what they did is important because the things you do can make a difference in the future. It doesn’t matter what race you are or what your gender is because the founding mothers of technology made a huge difference even though all of them were women and some of them were African American. As long as you are willing to take risk and listen to other peoples ideas, you can learn new things that can help with creating new ideas that can help with the future. We all make our own mistakes and we all have our own special skills, but when we communicate and share our ideas we can learn new things and make a difference like these women.

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