![]() ![]() However, she was told, “the girls don’t usually go.” She then asked, “is there a law?” Since there wasn’t one, her boss let her go. She worked her way up and, as she shared in the 2011 WHRO interview, when the space program came along, she asked for permission to participate in the briefings for it. In June of 1953, she landed a job at Langley working on airplanes. When she initially applied to the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics’ (NACA) Langley laboratory, she missed the hiring deadline for that year, but she was determined to work there. She didn’t let her race or gender hold her back from opportunities. When she found solutions for problems, she shared them which ultimately led to her being respected and trusted for her mathematical abilities.ģ. In school, she was able to skip multiple grades which led to her graduating from high school at the age of 14 and then college at age 18. She was a genius who didn’t hide her gift and educators took notice. Johnson was a teacher, mathematician, and researcher. She didn’t know what it meant to be a research mathematician but in time, that is what she pursued. As she encountered different people who saw her gift, like her college math teacher, she became enlightened and later decided that she wanted to work in aerospace. When it was discovered that young Katherine was good in math, she didn’t have an idea of what she could do with it as a career. Johnson shared in an interview with public media station WHRO that her dad only had a 6th-grade education, but he was good with numbers. Here are 5 ways that she used resilience to create her legacy:
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