As a student, Dajae Williams came up with a better way to learn math — rapping the quadratic formula or order of operations to make it more memorable. Her love of math took her all the way to NASA. Listen on NPRShortWave ⤵️
Dajae Williams is a quality engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab."I create music that fuses hip-hop and math as a tool to encourage underprivileged youth to explore STEM."Dajae Williams is a quality engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab.
"I create music that fuses hip-hop and math as a tool to encourage underprivileged youth to explore STEM."is using hip hop to make math and science more accessible to young people of color. We talk with Dajae about her path to NASA, and how music helped her fall in love with math and science when she was a teenager.
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