Isla Rodriguez, 11, holds her second place medal that she won in the Library of Congress 2017 “A Book That Shaped Me” Summer Writing Contest.
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Young writer has winning way with words
After reading Margot Lee Shetterly’s book, “Hidden Figures,” about African-American women mathematicians at NASA who did many of the calculations to put astronauts in space, 11-year-old Isla Rodriguez of Richmond now wants to be an astronaut.
