![]() ![]() The characters recognize their strengths and weaknesses and ultimately work together for a common goal, despite racial and gender tensions. They must possess the relationship and responsible decision-making skills to let others check their work when they’re dealing with precious lives. The engineers must have the self-awareness of knowing their math may not be right all the time, and that’s okay. It doesn't take one person to get to space it takes an entire team. However, they must put their pride aside to realize this is a group effort. In one scene, some of the engineers don't want their math checked because they think it's degrading to have someone else, particularly a black woman, check over them. Therefore, when building these spacecraft, the engineers must keep in mind that they have someone's life in their hands and work together. They realize the astronauts have lives, families, and friends. Hidden Figures incorporates social awareness when the characters look beyond the rockets and see what is inside of them: the astronauts. An important aspect of SEL is social awareness, which means showing empathy to others. In addition to STEM, JuSTEMagine promotes social and emotional learning. This reinforces the importance of human-computer interaction in scientific discoveries. However, when a new technology, IBM, arises, the black women strive to learn how to program it instead of being afraid of its supercomputing capabilities. A lot of dystopian Sci Fi films show an estranged relationship between man and machine like we cannot co-exist. Another aspect of STEM is not being afraid of the unknown, particularly the power of machinery. It requires out-of-the-box thinking to solve problems and most importantly account for the problems yet to come. The level of creativity needed to successfully build spacecraft transcends the sphere of ordinary thinking. They must think about infrastructures and math that do not yet exist, to get John into space safely and then bring him back down to Earth in one piece. The engineers must think beyond the realm of Earth. Also, an important component of STEM is creative thinking, and innovation is the catalyst for this film. The computer scientists form prototypes, make calculations to launch and land the spacecraft, prove the calculations, make trajectories, and much more. This movie incorporates STEM aspects because it is about a space race between America and Russia. This is shown in one of the film's most powerful moments when about twenty black women walk away from what is considered their part of the campus into a building filled with new technology that nobody believed they were qualified to run. Not only that, but she teaches what she’s learned and secures the jobs for all the other black women whose jobs have also been threatened by the new calculators at NASA. Dorothy teaches herself how to program the new calculators with a book to secure her job. Mary appeals to the court to let her become the first black woman in Virginia to attend a white school. Seeing how valuable she was, her boss made an effort to change the conditions of her work environment so she can more effectively do her job. To prove herself, she did extra math outside of her job. Katherine, despite the threat of humiliation, loss of her job, and possibility of physical harm, she angrily tells off the people she worked with for how they treated her and the conditions she had to work under. Each of the characters shows an inspiring amount of determination to overcome these obstacles.
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