Atlanta teacher who helped put the Curiosity rover on Mars looks back

Wanda Harding
Wanda Harding (pictured far left), speaks to NASA administrator Charles Bolden (second from left) in 2011 at Cape Canaveral, Fla. (Photo by Bill Ingalls/NASA)

Wanda Harding says the focus on math and science at Benjamin Mays High School helped change her career path when she was younger.

“I wanted to be a musician, but it turned out that that engineering path was something that I wanted to pursue,” Harding said.

After graduating from high school, she went to undergrad at Hampton University in Virginia and then earned her master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech.