Here at Adafruit we do our best to celebrate makers, hackers, artists and engineers from all walks of life with you. Since March is Women’s History Month we’ll be dedicating a post a day Monday – Friday to different ladies we admire.

We hope you enjoy our posts, learn something new, and join the celebration on social media with #WHM17 #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM !

Wondering why March is Women’s History Month? Check out this article from TIME:

The celebratory month has its roots in the socialist and labor movements — the first Women’s Day took place on Feb. 28, 1909, in New York City, as a national observance organized by the Socialist Party. It honored the one-year anniversary of the garment worker’s strikes in New York that had taken place a year earlier, when thousands of women marched for economic rights through lower Manhattan to Union Square. (That strike in turn honored an earlier 1857 march, when garment workers rallied for equal rights and a 10-hour day.) Within two years, Women’s Day had grown into an international observance that spread through Europe on the heels of socialism.

Meanwhile, in the U.S., feminist activists took issue with how the history books largely left out the story or contributions of women in America. In light of that imbalance, one group during the 1970s set about revising the school curriculum in Sonoma County, Calif., according to the National Women’s History Project. Their idea was to create a “Women’s History Week” in 1978, timed around International Women’s Day, which the U.N. had begun officially marking in 1975.

Read more, check out this fun article from the New York Times that has lesson plans, student opinion questions and crosswords, and learn more (and check out these quizzes) from National Women’s History Project.