Hidden Figure Scholarstm Program

Overview

Lawrence Technological University has received funding from the Detroit Auto Dealers Association Charitable Foundation Fund at the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan to establish the Hidden Figure ScholarsTM Program. This initiative recruits high school juniors and seniors from Detroit area high schools to expose them to research and career pathways in computer science and mathematics, featuring mentoring by LTU faculty and students. The title of the program is a reference to “Hidden Figures,” the 2016 biographical movie based on the lives of three unsung Black women who worked as mathematical calculators—called “computers”—for NASA in the segregated South during the early years of the Space Race.