Meet award-winning aerospace engineer Tiera Fletcher and twelve other science superstars and hear them tell in their own words not only about their fascinating work, but also about their childhoods and the paths they traveled to get where they are—paths that often involved failures and unexpected changes in direction, but also persistence, serendipity, and brilliant insights. Their careers range from computer scientist to microbiologist to unique specialties that didn’t exist before some amazing women profiled here created them.

Davina Durgana -- Evelyn Galban -- Cierra McDonald -- Patrícia Medici -- Dava Newman -- Maureen Raymo -- Mareena Robinson Snowden -- Monsi Román -- Kaitlyn Sadtler -- Sara Seager -- Teresa Woodruff -- Minjuan Zhang.