Aisha Bowe: Aerospace Engineer, STEMBoard and Lingo Founder, and Future Astronaut
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4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Aisha Bowe is an aerospace engineer and the founder of the engineering consultancy firm STEMBoard. Bowe wasn’t always an engineering wizard. In high school, she struggled to connect academically and enrolled in community college with little hope that any field could interest her. But a teacher identified her strengths and suggested she try out engineering. She thrived in her engineering courses, and her confidence and sense of possibility for her career began to grow. She followed this passion to the University of Michigan, where she gained two degrees in aerospace engineering. Bowe interned at NASA in college and then was hired full-time. She ultimately spent seven years there, working on small spacecraft and flight trajectory dynamics. In 2013, she founded STEMBoard, a startup that provides engineering services and solutions—a feat she accomplished without any outside funding—and eventually left her job at NASA to pursue her startup full-time. In 2020, she founded Lingo, a company that creates self-paced, at-home STEM education kits for kids. Earlier this year, it was announced that she would be the first Black woman to travel to space with Blue Origin, the spaceflight company founded by Jeff Bezos.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everyone. It's Hillary. I hope you enjoy our final episode of the year with the incredible Aisha Bow. |
| 0:07.8 | After this, we're going to be taking a short break, but we'll be back with a new episode of Second Life on January 6th. |
| 0:16.2 | Happy holidays. |
| 0:27.5 | Hi, everyone. I'm Hillary Kerr, the co-founder and chief content officer of Who What Where, and this is Second Life, a podcast spotlighting women who have truly |
| 0:34.1 | inspiring careers. We're talking about their work journeys, what they've learned from |
| 0:38.9 | the process of setting aside their doubts or fears, and what happens when they embark on their |
| 0:44.3 | second life. Today on the show, I'm speaking with the aerospace engineer and founder of the |
| 0:50.4 | engineering startup, STEM board, Aisha Bow. When we're planning out our guests for |
| 0:56.0 | Second Life, we like to make sure we're hitting different buckets, different industries, |
| 1:00.2 | you know, things like that. Well, I can guarantee that as a former rocket scientist, |
| 1:05.9 | Aisha is hitting a first-time bucket for us. Aisha has an incredible story. |
| 1:11.5 | She grew up feeling like school just wasn't for her. |
| 1:14.5 | It wasn't until a professor at community college pointed her towards engineering that |
| 1:19.4 | she felt like she could excel academically. |
| 1:21.3 | She ended up gaining two aerospace engineering degrees from the University of Michigan |
| 1:26.7 | and went on to work at NASA. After |
| 1:30.2 | seven years and several different roles, she left to focus on her startup, STEM board, which |
| 1:36.7 | provides engineering services and solutions to U.S. federal and private sector clients, which, |
| 1:42.9 | by the way, she did without any outside funding. |
| 1:46.7 | In 2020, she also created Lingo, a self-paced at-home coding kit to teach children 13 and |
| 1:53.7 | up how to code in an engaging and friendly way. As her profile has risen, she's also become an |
| 1:59.9 | outspoken advocate for including more |
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