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March 13, 2021
In another Google spotlight for Women’s History Month, the company featured three girls from Washington D.C. set to change the world.
Friends Mikayla Sharrieff, India Skinner, and Bria Snell, knew where they’d do their 270 hours of community service to graduate high school: In3, a place for would-be D.C. entrepreneurs to learn code, develop soft skills, and network.
When the girls’ In3 mentor, Marissa Jennings, suggested that they compete in a NASA contest – the Optimus Prime Spinoff Promotion and Research Challenge (OPSPARC) – the girls, now high school seniors, were excited to develop a “spinoff” of an existing NASA technology.