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Women in STEM Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon
in celebration of Women's History Month

What

Hosts DC Public Libraries

in collaboration with

invite you to edit Wikipedia's information about Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Fields.

Where & when

March 21st, 2015 at 12pm - 5pm

MLK Public Library in Washington DC 901 G St. NW, Washington, DC

Gallery Place/Chinatown, western exit

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Schedule

Women in STEM editathon, Washington DC, March 2015

• 12:00 - 12:15 .... Wikimedia DC Introduction
• 12:15 - 12:30 .... Library Resources
• 12:30 - 5:00 .... Editing time! <== right now!

Articles to work on

• Alice L. Kibbe, botanist
• Alice Magaw, anesthesiology nurse
• Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps, botanist
• Candace Pert, neuroscientist
• Clara H. Hasse, botanist
• Charlene Drew Jarvis, neuroscientist
• Constance Calenda, surgeon
• Ellen Schulz Quillin, botanist
• Eslanda Goode Robeson, anthropologist
• Evelyn Boyd Granville Evelyn Boyd Granville, mathematician
• Florence R. Sabin, medical scientist
• Julie Vinter Hansen Julie Vinter Hansen, astronomer
• Kaisha Atakhanova, biologist
• Liuba Shrira, computer scientist
• Limor Fried, computer scientist
• Manju Sharma, biologist
• Maria Fadiman Maria Fadiman, ethnobotanist
• Marie Le Masson Le Golft, naturalist
• Margaret Oakley Dayhoff, physical chemist
• Paula Isabel da Silva Moreira, neuroscientist
• Ruby Hirose, chemist
• Sossina M. Haile Sossina M. Haile, chemist

Research Resources

• Access World News
• AP Images
• Biography in Context
• Britannica Academic
• Expanded Academic ASAP
• History Reference Center
• Image Quest
• National Geographic Virtual Library
• Science in Context
• Social Sciences Full Text
• Engineer in Charge

Outcomes

• Added infobox and photo to Geraldine Pittman Woods
• Added biographical information and a new citation to Ruby_Hirose
• Added French translation Marie Le Masson Le Golft
• Expanded Sexism in the technology industry, Silicon Valley
• Expanded Heidi Roizen
• Added infobox and photo, and corrected bad URL's in Mabel Keaton Staupers
• Added infobox and photo in Helen Octavia Dickens
• added infobox Alice L. Kibbe
• new article on Pearl I. Young, physicist and first woman professional employee of NACA (NASA) in 1922
• Added photo of Sossina M. Haile to infobox
• Added information and four new sources to Eslanda Goode Robeson
• Added infobox information on Alice L. Kibbe