{"id":792001,"date":"2024-12-13T17:11:04","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T22:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=792001"},"modified":"2024-12-13T17:11:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T22:11:04","slug":"ames-engineers-recognized-as-technology-rising-stars-at-women-of-color-stem-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=792001","title":{"rendered":"Ames Engineers Recognized as Technology Rising Stars at Women of Color STEM Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In October 2024, Michelle Dominguez and Dorcas Kaweesa from the Ames Aeromechanics Office were each awarded as a \u201cTechnology Rising Star\u201d at the Women of Color STEM Conference in Detroit, Michigan.\u00a0 Rising Star awards are for \u201cyoung women, with 21 years or less in the workforce, who are helping to shape technology for the future.\u201d\u00a0 Ms. Dominguez is a Mechanical Systems Engineer working on rotorcraft design for vertical-lift vehicles such as air taxis and Mars helicopters.\u00a0 Dr. Kaweesa is a Structural Analysis Engineer and Deputy Manager for planetary rotorcraft initiatives including Mars Exploration Program and Mars Sample Return.\u00a0 More information on this award is at\u00a0 . <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/image-article\/ames-engineers-recognized-as-technology-rising-stars-at-women-of-color-stem-conference\/?rand=772140\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In October 2024, Michelle Dominguez and Dorcas Kaweesa from the Ames Aeromechanics Office were each awarded as a \u201cTechnology Rising Star\u201d at the Women of Color STEM Conference in Detroit,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":792002,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-792001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aeronautics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=792001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/792002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=792001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=792001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=792001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}