Joy Pinckard

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Title

Joy Pinckard

Description

Joy was always interested in STEM from a young age. She loved creating things with items she found around the house. which led her to working on circuits and then programming. She started college at 16 at Jacksonville State University. She majored in applied manufacturing engineering. She also earned her masters in computer science from The University of Alabama in Huntsville.She worked closely with Dr. Petty throughout her masters. During her time in college, she did research with Georgia Institute of Technology and UAH. Right out of college, she got a job working at Amazon in their game development department. Later on, she started working at CFD Research Corporation as a software engineer. She discusses her process of creating video games, which she does as a personal project. She also covers her experiences in STEM as a woman, positive and negative, in academia and industry. She emphasizes the importance of communication and the basics in computer science to make it in the STEM industry today.

Source

University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections, Huntsville, Alabama

Date

2023-07-07

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