In 1935, NACA established a section of women who did complex calculations for the company. She worked in the west area Computer section at the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. the group consisted of African American women who made mathematical calculations by hand and using some tools they had back then. They continue to work after the war to support research and design for the US Space Program. John F Kennedy(the president) organized this program. In 1961 Dorothy started working in the area of electronic computing. She she became very skillful in computer programming and also taught herself the program FORTRAN. She later taught her co-workers the program. In 1949, she became the head of the West area computers taking over the white woman who had just passed away. Dorothy became the first black supervisor at NACA and one of the few female supervisors. She was in charge of a group made up entirely of African American women that were mathematicians. She knew the machine computers were going to be in the future so she taught the women programming languages and other concepts to prepare them for this upcoming
In 1935, NACA established a section of women who did complex calculations for the company. She worked in the west area Computer section at the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. the group consisted of African American women who made mathematical calculations by hand and using some tools they had back then. They continue to work after the war to support research and design for the US Space Program. John F Kennedy(the president) organized this program. In 1961 Dorothy started working in the area of electronic computing. She she became very skillful in computer programming and also taught herself the program FORTRAN. She later taught her co-workers the program. In 1949, she became the head of the West area computers taking over the white woman who had just passed away. Dorothy became the first black supervisor at NACA and one of the few female supervisors. She was in charge of a group made up entirely of African American women that were mathematicians. She knew the machine computers were going to be in the future so she taught the women programming languages and other concepts to prepare them for this upcoming