Trans Engineers You Should Know, with Dr. Ada-Rhodes Short The K12 Engineering Education Podcast

Mechanical engineer Dr. Ada-Rhodes Short studies robot brains, having previously
worked in industry and academia for commercial toy companies, NASA, Texas A&M,
and more. She also advocates for diversity and inclusion in education and STEM
for trans people, including her time founding the Sexual Identity Forum at
Baylor University. Dr. Short talks about one of her latest projects finding
trans women engineers who have made pivotal contributions to the world. Related
to this episode: • Dr. Ada-Rhodes Short on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/The_Ada_Rhodes • Sphero Robotics: https://sphero.com/ •
SPRK+ robot: https://sphero.com/products/sphero-sprk-plus • BB8:
https://sphero.com/pages/legacy-products • Baylor Student Activists Appeal to
NCAA:
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/08/07/gay-rights-activists-ask-ncaa-intervene-baylors-lgbtq-policies
• Gamma Alpha Upsilon at Baylor University: https://twitter.com/baylor_gay •
Susan Calvin from Isaac Asimov's Robot stories:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Calvin • Totally Trans podcast:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/totally-trans-searching-for-the-trans-canon/id1543571717
• Lynn Conway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Conway • VLSI, very
large-scale integration:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Large_Scale_Integration • Sophie Wilson:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Wilson • ARM computer processor
architecture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture • Danielle Bunton
Berry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danielle_Bunten_Berry • M.U.L.E. video
game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.U.L.E. • Dr. Bryony Dupont:
https://mime.oregonstate.edu/people/dupont • Angelica Ross:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelica_Ross • TransTech Social Enterprises:
https://www.transtechsocial.org/ • Ashawna Hailey:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashawna_Hailey Subscribe and find more podcast
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