What was she famous for?
She worked in a military during World War I as a nurse’s aide with Red Cross. There she met aviators and developed her love of flying. She won the women's altitude record at 14,000 ft. Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.
Her leadership qualities:
- Caring-wrote books and articles to help support mother and sister
- Motivational-supported women’s rights & looked forward to when women would have same rights for education & careers as men
- Inspirational-supported aviation and encouraged the many different possibilities of flight
- Determined- after unsuccessful mission, still affirmed “I’ll be back”
- Trustworthy when she was tired and ill during flight to New Guinea, never gave up on duties & kept flying plane
Where did she get her inspiration to fly?
She constructed a similar roller coaster to the one she saw at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair she described it as being “just like flying.”
Amelia (Mary)Earhart
Born: Atchison, Kansas, on July 24, 1897
Parents: Amelia Otis Earhart & Samuel "Edwin" Stanton