                
            This Years Topic: Design a website based on an inspiring woman or influential women (real or fictional) and what makes her/them an inspiration/influence.

What This Website Is About?

Over time, womens rights have changed vastly but one thing that has stayed the same is that we have strong and inspiratonal women leading these movements and fighting for girls all over the world.

In this website, we will talk about three inspiring women that have affected women in a big way, Amelia Earhart, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Malala Yousafzai. Thank you for checking out our website!

Before you dive into our site - Watch an introduction video about our website and why we were inspired by these women.

About Us

Nidhi Narayanan

My name is Nidhi Narayanan and I'm an 8th grader at Boulan Park Middle School. Some things I enjoy doing are baking, listening to music, and reading. I also like to play the violin & piano, and play with my dog.

Kristin Prakash

My name is Kristin Prakash. I am an 8th grader at Boulan Park Middle School. Science and Technology get my creative muscles energized. When I'm not entertaining my 7 year old brother, my hobbies include reading, dancing and learning to make music.

The Three Women who inspired us the most....

Amelia Earhart

American aviator

First women to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean

Disappeared somewhere over the Pacific Ocean on July 2, 1937

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

US Supreme Courts second female justice

Born on March 15, 1933 as Joan Ruth Bader

First female tenured professor at Columbia University

Malala Yousafzai

In 2014, she became the youngest person to receive a Nobel Prize

Activist for female education

She survived a shot in the head by a Taliban gun man in 2012

Introducing our Inspirational Women

Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart was an American aviator who set many flying records and led the advancement of women in aviation as she became the first women to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to US mainland. She disappeared somewhere over the Pacific Ocean on July 2, 1937 and her plane was never found, and she was declared lost at sea on January 5, 1939. Her disappearance is one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of the 20th century. At a young age, she defied gender norms as she played basketball, took a course in auto repair, and went to college for a short period. She worked as a Red Cross nurse's aid during World War I, and after that she enrolled at Columbia University as a student in pre-med. She first got an interest in flying in December of 1920 when she went on her first airplane ride

Ruth Bader Ginsburg fought for equality for women and was the Supreme Courts second female justice, but she spent a very long time facing adversity before being appointed a Supreme Court justice. She was born on March 15, 1933 in Brooklyn, New York. Her birth name was Joan Ruth Bader. During the Great Depression, her father was a furrier, and her mother worked at a garment factory. Her mother instilled a love of education in her as well as heavily influenced her early life, but was diagnosed with cancer, and died the day before Ginsburg graduated from high school. Ginsburg had to forgo her education for her brother to pay for college.

Malala Yousafzai is an activist for female education. At a young age, she started to publicly advocate for female education as well as trained with local empowerment organisations for girls which gave them advice on women's rights and peacefully. When she was 11, she blogged for the BBC about living in Pakistan while the Taliban was threatening to close girls’ schools. As a young girl, she defied the Taliban, and demanded that girls be allowed to get an education. She became an advocate for girls’ education when she was a child, which resulted in the Taliban issuing a death threat against her. She was shot in the head by a Taliban gun man in 2012, but she survived. In 2013, she gave a speech to the UN and published her first book, I am Malala, and in 2014, she became the youngest person to receive a Nobel Prize.

What each of them stood for?

Women Aviation Pioneer

Amelia Earhart is probably the most famous female pilot in aviation history, an accolade due both to her aviation career and to her mysterious disappearance. On May 20–21, 1932, Earhart became the first woman — and the second person after Charles Lindbergh — to fly nonstop and solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

Gender Equality

She believed that the law was gender-blind and all groups were entitled to equal rights. One of the five cases she won before the Supreme Court involved a portion of the Social Security Act that favored women over men because it granted certain benefits to widows but not widowers.

Women Education

Determined to go to school and with a firm belief in her right to an education, Malala stood up to the Taliban. Alongside her father, Malala quickly became a critic of their tactics. “How dare the Taliban take away my basic right to education?” she once said on Pakistani TV.