Erika Leslie and Margaret Molyson

Houston Peach Branch enjoyed the guest speakers, Margaret Molyson and Erika Leslie at the November meeting. Molyson is the Chair of the Science Department at Houston County High School. Leslie is a senior at the same school.

Molyson traced her career in the sciences and talked about female students of today. Leslie was one of only 40 female students selected as a NASA Aerospace Scholar for 2011.  Erika spent a week working with NASA engineers at the Johnson Space Flight Center (JSC) in Houston this past summer.

All of the trip expenses, including transportation, were funded by NASA.  The program is known as WISH (Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math – High School).  Erika competed with hundreds of other high school junior women for this honor and was one of only 40 selected from across the U.S.  Erika has lots of photos and is willing to do an interview to share about the experience.