Terysa Solves It

Give her some time and she'll figure out how to solve anything. So when Terysa is given an older computer for her birthday, she faces her biggest challenge yet: can she make it talk?

Terysa is full of good ideas, but will any of them work, or does she need to change her approach and think less like a human and think more like a computer? 

This fun and interactive story introduces children to the basics of coding through an engaging narrative based on the true story of a little girl who loves to solve problems!

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There is only one snag: she has so many good ideas, she doesn’t know which one to choose. Terysa loves astronomy, so she wants her project to be space-related. But what exactly should she present?

Luckily, her sister Shana is an astronomy wiz and is on hand to help. Shana inspires Terysa with the tale of mathematician Dorothy Vaughan, NASA’s first Black supervisor and a computer programming pioneer.

Together, the sisters puzzle out the Python code that will get Terysa’s science project moving all on its own, and will soon have a project that is out of this world.

But will it be enough to win the top science fair prize?