GPSS DEI Women's History Month Puzzle 2022
Across
- 2. On Nov.23, 1893, she received a U.S. patent for "certain new and useful improvements in car-heaters"
- 4. First woman to become CEO of General Motors
- 6. First African American woman to travel into space in 1992
- 8. Michigan native who became the first woman licensed to drive a top fuel dragster
- 11. Mother of modern chemistry
- 13. Golden Age film star and inventor of frequency hopping, underlying theory behind cellphone technology
- 15. She is known as the first computer programmer
- 17. British chemist used X-ray crystallography to reveal the helical shape of DNA
- 18. In the mid-1950s, GM Styling VP introduced a team of all female designers, known as the "__" of design
Down
- 1. First and only woman to be named a distinguished fellow of the British Computer Society
- 2. Chinese American physicist that worked on the Manhattan Project
- 3. First woman to be inaugurated into the Automotive Hall of Fame in 2000
- 4. First woman in America to receive a medical degree
- 5. NASA computer and "Hidden Figure"
- 7. First woman to claim racing victory at Sebring
- 9. This woman's mathematical modeling research led to the creation of GPS
- 10. First woman to travel into space in 1963
- 12. On Nov. 10, 1903, she received a U.S. patent for the first windshield wiper
- 14. Author of influential guides to etiquette and female auto journalist
- 16. First American woman to travel into space in 1983