Watching Hidden Figures for the Friday FIlm was super cool because I had never seen the movie before. I am currently taking an astronomy class about space exploration, and the first part of the semester we talked about the lunar expeditions and how the United states got there. It was great to be able to connect the Rose Scholars Program with another academic class I am taking. Also, seeing the black women of NASA get the recognition they deserved, even though long overdue, was great. It made me very emotional because there are so many fields that experience the same issues. Underrepresented people come into different fields and introduce new ways of thinking that deviate from the majority, enabling people to make these great breakthroughs. However, they work under people who do not look like them, and the recognition goes unawarded.

It was also a very heartening story; it had a feel-good ending that made me happy I attended. Ad the actual photos at the end that depicted the women who helped take America to space really grounded the film and reminded me that this is reality.