Black Girls Rock Science: Teenage Girls Created Africa’s First Private Satellite
- Jul 5, 2015
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A small handful of Africa’s daughters are launching the continent into the 21st century with the creation of a private satellite. It is expected to launch in 2016.
The bold, innovative and exciting venture is not the handy work of scientist, engineers or even adults, but a group of black teenage girls from South African high schools. The girls are from the Cape Town area, but attended Youth Day organized by Meta Economic Development Organisation (Medo) to begin
the project. MEDO’s CEO Judi Sandrock said the project evolved from a noticeable shortage of technical skills needed for building businesses, thus they decided to start a science, technology, engineering and math focused program.
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