Up Periscope!: How Engineer Raye Montague Revolutionized Shipbuilding - Hardcover

Swanson, Jennifer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316565482 ISBN 13: 9780316565486

Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers US, 2024

Synopsis

The inspiring story of engineer Raye Montague, a hidden figure who created the first comprehensive computer program to design ships for the US Navy.

Girls like Raye Montague weren't supposed to like math or science, or go to engineering school. But tenacious Raye had a plan, one that eventually took her all the way to the US Navy. There, she was assigned an impossible task: to come up with a single computer program that could design every part of a ship. It had never been done before-but Raye's groundbreaking program revolutionized the way ships and submarines were built, and set her on a path to become a pioneering figure in naval engineering and the navy's first female program manager of ships.

Award-winning author Jennifer Swanson and acclaimed illustrator Veronica Miller Jamison celebrate a self-made engineer who worked around anyone and anything that stood in her way in this illuminating biography about never giving up on your dreams.

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About the Author

Veronica Miller Jamison is a fashion illustrator whose clients include Essence Magazine, Bloomingdales, and Hallmark. A Computer Called Katherine is her debut picture book. She is an alumna of Howard University and Drexel University, and she lives outside Philadelphia with her husband and their cat. She invites you to visit her online at veronicamarche.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers US
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316565482
• ISBN 13: 9780316565486
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Jamison Veronica Miller
• Number of pages: 40