March is Women's History Month and we are proud to recognize female leaders in STEM. Today we highlight Virginia Apgar. She invented the standardized assessment system for evaluating a newborn's health, called the Apgar score. #pcssdproud #equityandexcellence
almost 3 years ago, PCSSD
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March is Women's History Month and we are proud to recognize female leaders in STEM. Today we highlight Katherine Johnson. She calculated the flight path for the first American in space and checked critical flight path calculations for Apollo 13. #pcssdproud #equityandexcellence
almost 3 years ago, PCSSD
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Registration is open for the 2022-2023 school year! If you're NEW to PCSSD for kindergarten - 12th grade, you can register online. We have a new registration portal that makes the process much easier for families. #pcssdproud #equityandexcellence English: https://bit.ly/PCSSD_Registration22-23e Spanish: https://bit.ly/PCSSD_Registration22-23s
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March is Women's History Month and we are proud to recognize female leaders in STEM. Today we highlight Mollie Orshanzky. She was a statistician who pioneered the way the U.S. Government defines poverty. #pcssdproud #equityandexcellence
almost 3 years ago, PCSSD
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March is Women's History Month and we are proud to recognize female leaders in STEM. Today we highlight Gerty Cori. She was the first American woman to win a Nobel prize in science in 1947 when she co-won for work on glycogen metabolism. #pcssdproud #equityandexcellence
almost 3 years ago, PCSSD
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March is Women's History Month and we are proud to recognize female leaders in STEM. Today we highlight Mae Jemison. In 1992, she was the first African American woman in space. #pcssdproud #equityandexcellence
almost 3 years ago, PCSSD
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March is Women's History Month and we are proud to recognize female leaders in STEM. Today we highlight Ada Lovelace. She is considered the founder of scientific computing and the first computer programmer. #pcssdproud #equityandexcellence
almost 3 years ago, PCSSD
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March is Women's History Month and we are proud to recognize female leaders in STEM. Today we highlight Lillian Gilbreth. She was the first woman elected to the National Academy of Engineering. The book Cheaper by the Dozen chronicled her life. #pcssdproud #equityandexcellence
almost 3 years ago, PCSSD
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March is Women's History Month and we are proud to recognize female leaders in STEM. Today we highlight Jane Goodall. She is seen as the world's expert on chimpanzees and spent 60 years studying the social and family interactions of chimpanzees. #pcssdproud #equityandexcellence
almost 3 years ago, PCSSD
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March is Women's History Month and we are proud to recognize female leaders in STEM. Today we highlight Margaret Collins. She was an entomologist and zoologist and co-discovered the neotermes luykxi species of termites. #pcssdproud #equityandexcellence
almost 3 years ago, PCSSD
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March is Women's History Month and we are proud to recognize female leaders in STEM. Today we highlight Barbara McClintock. She won the Nobel prize in 1983 for her physiology work discovering a gene's ability to change position on the chromosome. #pcssdproud #equityandexcellence
almost 3 years ago, PCSSD
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March is Women's History Month and we are proud to recognize female leaders in STEM. Today we highlight Virginia Holsinger. She impacted public health by developing a shelf-stable milk substitute mix to send internationally by donation programs. #pcssdproud #equityandexcellence
almost 3 years ago, PCSSD
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March is Women's History Month and we are proud to recognize female leaders in STEM. Today we highlight Marie Curie. She is the first woman to win a Nobel prize. In 1903 she won for her work in physics and again in 1911 for her work in chemistry. #pcssdproud #equityandexcellence
almost 3 years ago, PCSSD
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March is Women's History Month and we are proud to recognize female leaders in STEM. Today we highlight June Almeida. She pioneered immune electron microscopy to identify and visualize viruses, including the first human coronavirus. #pcssdproud #equityandexcellence
almost 3 years ago, PCSSD
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As COVID-19 precautions continue to evolve, PCSSD maintains its dedication to following guidelines as recommended by the CDC and Arkansas Department of Health. Therefore, beginning Monday, March 7, all schools will resume normal visitor policy procedures.
almost 3 years ago, PCSSD
March is Women's History Month and we are proud to recognize female leaders in STEM. Today we highlight Sally Ride. She became the first American woman to fly into space in 1983. #pcssdproud #equityandexcellence
almost 3 years ago, PCSSD
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March is Women's History Month and we are proud to recognize female leaders in STEM. Today we highlight Lydia Villa-Komaroff. In 1978, she discovered that bacteria could be engineered to produce human insulin. #pcssdproud #equityandexcellence
almost 3 years ago, PCSSD
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March is Women's History Month and we are proud to recognize female leaders in STEM. Today we highlight Edith Clarke. She developed a graphing calculator in 1921 and was the first professionally employed female electrical engineer in the U.S. #pcssdproud #equityandexcellence
almost 3 years ago, PCSSD
edith clarke
March is Women's History Month and we are proud to recognize female leaders in STEM. Today we highlight Rear Admiral Grace Hopper. She changed computer programing by developing a computer language written in English rather than mathematical notation. #pcssdproud #equityandexcellence
almost 3 years ago, PCSSD
February is Black History Month and PCSSD is proud to have many Black leaders across the District. Today we highlight the Director of Federal Programs, Dr. Darnell Bell. "Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain." Vivian Greene #pcssdproud #equityandexcellence
almost 3 years ago, PCSSD
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