D Report

Topics:  Hopi & Dine , Semiconductor design, STEM, Indigenous women in the semiconductor and computer science

Title : Dine & Hopi Women: Semiconductor Weavers

Participants:  Vanesha Honani  and Nicholas Rajen
Publish Date: 09/07/2022

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• Conversation Topics:
• What  does a  QA engineer do?
• What is the Fairchild plant project story?
• Native  and indigenous community were naturally engineers?
• What is the story of  Hopi women in  Semiconductor manufacturing?
• Who is Richard Feynman?
• Where is  California Indian Nations College?
• What is the relationship between semiconductor circuitry design and Navajo tapestry design?
• What are the different narratives about our respective communities?
• Have the STEM fields always been considered spaces for white men only?
• What is the story of indigenous women in the semiconductor and computer science field?
• How many Native Americans participate in coding?
• How do we incorporate our community traditions into our professional spaces?
• How  has  the  semiconductor shaped our current reality?
• What are the roles of  women in STEM?
• Women have been  left out of recognition  from the great discoveries?
• What is  Rosalind Franklin  relation to  discovery of  DNA Molecule?
• Emmy Noether mathematician
• What is role of the semiconductor in our lives?
• How did a Fairchild’s semiconductor factory end up in the Navajo reservation?
• What is the relationship between the Hopi weaving design and the final semiconductor design?
• How do we connect the history of  colonialism, Native communities,  and the Fairchild’s semiconductor factory  placement on a  reservation  to employ native women?
• Why did Hewlett Packard (HP) follow the Fairchild project of  establishing manufacturing plants Hopi and Navajo land?
• Why do we need to understand the history of  colonialism  to  understand  why the Fairchild semiconductor plant was built on a Native  American reservation?
• Were the semiconductor engineers inspired by the native American sand paintings?
• Why are the resources of Hopi and Navajo nations quantified and targeted by corporations?
• Did the semiconductor circuit design copy the Navajo rug design?
• When did the American Indian Movement take over the Fairchild semiconductor plant?