A 25-year-old woman is awarded a full scholarship to study aerospace engineering at Georgia Tech in the United States.

A 25-year-old woman is awarded a full scholarship to study aerospace engineering at Georgia Tech in the United States.

A 25-year-old woman is awarded a full scholarship to study aerospace engineering at Georgia Tech in the United States.

Tiffany Davis, a 25-year-old Washington, D.C. resident, gained national attention after she was awarded a full scholarship to study aerospace engineering for a bachelor’s degree at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Since she was a young girl, Tiffany, who rose to fame in 2016 thanks to the hashtag #YesIAmARocketScientist, has fostered her love of math and science.

According to GPC, Tiffany, a native of Washington, D.C., fell in love with math and science at a young age. She majored in aeronautical engineering with a French minor while attending the Georgia Institute of Technology on a full scholarship.

Tiffany read a lot of astronomy and engineering books as a child and attended summer camps with an engineering theme. She also carried out practical experiments at home, such as building a hovercraft out of plywood and a leaf blower.

“When I was 11 I asked for a circuit board for Christmas because I thought it was cool that this board could play such a huge role in how something works,” she said.

Tiffany took part in Boeing’s Engineering Accelerated Hiring Initiative in 2014 while she was still at Georgia Tech. This allowed her to work for the firm during many internships, including as a structural analyst and a product design intern, as her LinkedIn page states.

She also participated extensively in a variety of extracurricular activities, such as participation in the Georgia Tech Student Ambassadors, the African American Student Union (AASU), the Society of Women Engineers (SWE), and the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE).

Tiffany participated actively in several co-ops and internships at well-known companies including Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, NASA, and Boeing. Notably, she arranged for former President Barack Obama to visit the school and speak to students about affordable education.

Tiffany narrated how she wrote to President Obama about the cost of college. In response, the President stated that he was committed to making sure that all Americans, “including future rocket scientists like you, can achieve their dreams without worrying about their loans.”

At the moment, Tiffany works as a spacecraft engineer in the Mission Operations and Engineering division of Boeing in Washington, D.C. The Women of Color in STEM conference named her the 2018 Technology Rising Star. This honor is given to young women who, in their first one to twenty-two years of employment, are having a major impact on the direction of technology.

At the Georgia Institute of Technology, she is also working on a Master of Science in computer science. Her goal is to use machine learning and artificial intelligence in projects related to future space exploration missions after receiving her master’s degree.

Tiffany is devoted to supporting young women’s growth in STEM professions, especially for Black women, and inspiring them to follow their dreams.

“I want more women and minorities to join this field, so I hope that sharing my story will make it easier for people that look like me in the future so that they can do it too,” she said.

She’s spoken at numerous conferences and events, such as Women of Color in STEM Conference, Dream Talk Panel, HowGirlsCode, Girls Who Code, and the BET Black Girls Rock Awards Show.

To help send young girls to space camp, Tiffany founded the AstroGirls Scholarship Fund. She thinks that representation is important and that Black women can achieve everything they set their minds to.

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