Shooting for the Stars: At Age 22 Tiera Guinn is Already a NASA Engineer
Tiera Guinn is just 22 years old and she’s already working for NASA.
As a Rocket Structural Design and Analysis Engineer for the Space Launch System that aerospace company Boeing is building for NASA, Guinn designs and analyzes parts of a rocket that she said will be one of the biggest and most powerful in history.
Have you already watched Hidden Figures? Tiera’s story closely resembles that of Mary Jackson who was played by Janelle Monae in the award-winning film.
Her mother noticed her daughter’s math skills and made her practice… at the supermarket.
“When [my mom and I] would go to the grocery store, she would get me to clip coupons [and] put it in my coupon organizer,” Guinn told WBRC News. “By the time we got to the register, I’d have to calculate the exact total, including tax. And I did that since I was six years old.”
Then one day she realised she can possibly design planes and she can be an aerospace engineer. And now she is a NASA engineer at the age of 22! And she will soon be graduating from MIT with a 5.0 GPA! What an incredible story! She follows her dreams and doesn’t let anyone to get in her way.
A few decades ago she wouldn’t be even allowed to take a step into the building of NASA and now she’s an engineer there. Hidden Figures showed us how hard it was for Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Dorothy Vaughan and these women paved a way for us.
She is a great role model for all the beautiful young black girls. Everything is possible!
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