On Episode 124 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss with Czarina Salido concerning the underrepresentation of girls in STEM fields.
Salido, a physics graduate of combined Mexican and Native American heritage, based Taking Up Area in 2014. This nonprofit goals to deal with the underrepresentation of girls, notably Native American ladies, in STEM fields. Primarily based close to Tucson, the group gives mentoring, instruction, and Area Camp scholarships to deprived ladies on a close-by reservation.
Salido’s initiative has gained recognition within the STEM neighborhood and impressed related efforts nationwide. Be part of us as we talk about her work’s challenges and successes on this episode of This Week in Area!
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About This Week In Area
This Week in Space covers the brand new house age. Each Friday we take a deep dive into an enchanting subject. What’s occurring with the brand new race to the moon and different planets? When will SpaceX actually ship folks to Mars?
Be part of Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik from Area.com as they sort out these questions and extra every week on Friday afternoons. You’ll be able to subscribe in the present day in your favourite podcatcher.
Rod Pyle is an writer, journalist, tv producer and Editor-in-Chief of Ad Astra magazine. He has written 18 books on house historical past, exploration, and growth, together with Area 2.0, Innovation the NASA Manner, Interplanetary Robots, Blueprint for a Battlestar, Superb Tales of the Area Age, First On the Moon, and Vacation spot Mars
In a earlier life, Rod produced quite a few documentaries and quick movies for The Historical past Channel, Discovery Communications, and Disney. He additionally labored in visible results on Star Trek: Deep Area 9 and the Battlestar Galactica reboot, in addition to numerous sci-fi TV pilots. His most up-to-date TV credit score was with the NatGeo documentary on Tom Wolfe’s iconic ebook The Proper Stuff.
Accountable for Area.com’s editorial imaginative and prescient, Tariq Malik has been the Editor-in-Chief of Area.com since 2019 and has lined house information and science for 18 years. He joined the Area.com group in 2001, first as an intern and shortly after as a full-time spaceflight reporter overlaying human spaceflight, exploration, astronomy and the night time sky. He turned Area.com’s managing editor in 2009. As on-air expertise has introduced house tales on CNN, Fox Information, NPR and others.
Tariq is an Eagle Scout (sure, he earned the Area Exploration advantage badge), a Area Camp veteran (4 instances as a child, as soon as as an grownup), and has taken the last word “vomit comet” trip whereas reporting on zero-gravity fires. Earlier than becoming a member of Area.com, he served as a workers reporter for The Los Angeles Instances overlaying metropolis and schooling beats. He has journalism levels from the College of Southern California and New York College.
