Black Queens Faced Racist Cyber Attacks For Taking Part in a NASA Competition

 

 

Three high school students who faced racist attacks online after entering a nationwide NASA competition have been awarded $4,000 by Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, the mayor’s office announced Thursday.

The students, Mikayla Sharrieff, India Skinner and Bria Snell, juniors at Washington’s Benjamin Banneker High School, had designed a system to filter lead out of school drinking water fountains. Their project propelled them into the final round of NASA’s Goddard’s Optimus Prime Spinoff Promotion and Research Challenge — the only all-black, female team to do so, the Washington Post reports.

Their success, however, also made them the targets of racist cyberattacks on anonymous web forum 4chan.

The site’s users attempted to organize voting drives to support other teams and hack the competition’s voting system, prompting NASA to close voting for the competition.

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I definitely wish these beautiful queens the best and I hope they continue to succeed until they just can't anymore. Hatred is so ugly. Keep winning queens!