Black History Month STEM 2022
Across
- 5. a drug used to treat rheumatoid arthritis
- 6. persistence in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success
- 10. any of six international awards given annually for outstanding work in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, economics, and the promotion of peace.
- 14. NASA's first African American supervisor
- 16. the scientific study of human behaviour, culture, society and linguistics
- 18. the first African American woman in the US to earn a PhD in Chemistry
- 23. knowledge or perception of a situation or fact
- 24. can't be seen
- 25. inventiveness
- 27. made a difference to
- 28. The Black Nurse who became a Heroine of the Crimea
- 30. a small group of people within a community or country, differing from the main population in race, religion, language, or political persuasion
- 31. the action of helping or doing work for someone
- 32. a person who introduces new methods, ideas, or products
- 33. a grant or payment made to support a student's education, awarded on the basis of academic or other achievement
Down
- 1. an expert in or student of the branch of science concerning the chemical processes occuring within living organisms
- 2. Author, anthropologist and filmmaker who established a school of dramatic arts at Bethune-Cookman University
- 3. an act of concentrating interest or activity on something
- 4. the first African American to earn a Bachelor of Science degree
- 7. a fire-fighting foam which smothered oil and gasoline fires. This was particularly useful on ships and aircraft carriers
- 8. deoxyribonucleic acid
- 9. the research chemist and pioneer who designed and supervised the construction of the world’s first plant for the production of isolated soy protein
- 11. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- 12. the earth, together with all of its countries and peoples
- 13. a computer programming language that is used for scientific and algebraic applications
- 15. science technology engineering and mathematics
- 17. one of the first developers of groundbreaking atmospheric computer models
- 18. a drug or other preparation for the treatment or prevention of disease
- 19. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
- 20. The Presidential Medal of Freedom America's highest civilian honour was awarded to this black woman by Barack Obama
- 21. set apart from each other; isolated or divided
- 22. NASA’s first black female engineer
- 26. the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles
- 29. persons of a particular kind, especially one who is important or distinctive in some way.