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Tiera Guinn Fletcher
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About
Born and raised in a small town near Atlanta, Georgia, United States, Tiera Fletcher Guinn has had a passion for aerospace engineering since the tender age of eleven. Before then, she had aspirations of being a scientist, inventor, architect, mathematician, and many other careers within the field of STEM. It was not until she became introduced to the field of aerospace engineering that she realized her true dream.
Family
family
Her mother Sheila was an accountant and her father was a construction worker. Her parents encouraged her to calculate things and measure things in her daily life. Guinn honed her maths skill at..... the grocery store! Her mother recognized her daughter's talent for solving difficult mathematical equations when she was fairly young. As a result, every time Guinn went to the grocery store with her mother, she was responsible for organizing coupons and calculating the total of all the items, including tax These exercises - learning about the applications of architecture challenged Fletcher and set her apart from other kids her age. At eleven years old, she zeroed in on her interest in Aerospace engineering while participating in an aerospace program.
Education & Career
Education & career
Fletcher attended Wheeler High School in Marietta, Georgia. She also landed a research internship at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2014. The internship involved assisting in the research of landing performance in aircraft. She start study at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in age of 18 and graduating with a GPA of 5.0, which is perfect+extra credit. From June 2016 to June 2017 Fletcher was one of the lead engineers ,designers and stress analyst intern at Boeing, where she helped with the design process and analysis of the Space Launch System for NASA which is set to send people to Mars. She is part of the Engine Section Task Leading team responsible for this, of which she is the youngest member.
Timeline
2015
When Fletcher at junior and senior years of college, she participated in internships at Boeing and taking a role as a Systems Engineering Intern, where she helped design, test, and collaborate with other professionals on Boeing products.
2017
1999
Tiera Guinn Fletcher was borned
She was married to Myron Fletcher - a pilot. Fletcher graduated Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a GPA of 5.0, which is perfect+extra credit.
Timeline
The following year, Fletcher was a design engineer and stress analyst intern at Boeing, where she helped with the design process and analysis of the Space Launch System for NASA
2016
Fletcher attended Wheeler High School in Marietta, Georgia. During her senior year of high school, Fletcher received an internship at NASA in Langley, Virginia.She also landed a research internship at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2014
Fletcher won the Most Promising Engineer – Industry Award at the 2019 Black Engineer of the Year Awards.
2014
2019
Achievement
Others
Fletcher received the 2017 Good Housekeeping's Awesome Woman Award which recognizes women who are impacting the world for the better by overcoming social constraints and influencing the world around them.
Also in 2017, Fletcher received the Albert G. Hill Prize at MIT which recognizes students in their junior or senior year who have excelled academically and impacted the environment at MIT in a way that improves campus climate for other minorities.
In June 2018, Fletcher participated as a keynote speaker at Impact'18 in Krakow – where speakers discuss innovations and business models to share with the world what work they are doing.
On November 8, 2018, Fletcher won the Most Promising Engineer – Industry Award at the 2019 Black Engineer of the Year Awards.
Fun Facts About Tiera
Fun Facts
1. Guinn is currently a student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and she will be
graduating soon with a 5.0 GPA.
2. This isn’t just a job for Guinn. She’s known she wanted to be an aerospace engineer as a child. “One day I saw a plane fly by and I just had this
realization, ’ I can design planes. I’m going to bean aerospace engineer.’ So every middle school class that I chose, it was directed toward that goal. The high school that I chose, that took me an hour to get to every day, it was because I wanted to be an
aerospace engineer.” — Tiera Guinn
3.Tiera is a naturalista and rocks her fro and
protective styles at work. Peep her in cute braids!
Motivation
Tiera Guinn
Motivation
The quotes that she said make me like the best is: “You have to look forward to your dream and you can’t let anybody get in the way of it,” she said. “No matter how tough it may be, no matter how many tears you might cry, you have to keep pushing. And you have to understand that nothing comes easy. Keeping your eyes on the prize, you can succeed.”