11 awesome tips and insights from 8 women at NASA's Data Bootcamp
On Friday, Fusion attended NASA’s first-ever Data Bootcamp, which focused on Women in Data (you can read about the event here.) Throughout the day, panelists and audience members shared their stories, offered tips on how to succeed in work and gave advice on how to overcome intimidation. Their words were so inspiring we decided to put them together in one place.
NASA astronaut Cady Coleman, on encouraging girls and women to code:
“We still need some mechanisms to help girls and women understand that they’re smart enough to do anything, and if there’s a skill they want they just need to learn it. The big thing that they probably don’t understand is that they are really essential parts of the solution.”
Niki Selken, Space Apps Challenge winner, on hackathons:
“There is no skill-set that is not useful within this environment.”
Jerelyn Rodriguez, The Knowledge House, on tech-based solutions:
“When you think about problem solving, think about data, but also think about the people.”
Natalia Arguello, Executive Director, NYDesigns, on facing rejection:
“You are not your idea. It’s just something that you created, and you create a thousand of them.”