About Georgette
For a good portion of her twenty-one year stint on this dear planet, Georgette has spent time trying to reconcile her many loves with her profound failures. She learned early that scientists are good at math, professional gamers have hand-eye coordination, and neither astronauts nor cheerleaders are afraid of heights. She enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania with an English major, and spent some time writing short stories and learning Middle English before becoming unbelievably bored. As was only appropriate for an aspiring astronaut with a fear of practically everything adventurous, her childhood was spent in the company of much science fiction, and now in college she found her own short stories reflecting the long discarded interest. So she rediscovered all the old favorites, from Verne to Asimov, Heinlein and Card. She also changed her major.
Now a senior at Penn, majoring in Science, Technology and Society, Georgette has finally come to terms with her love of all things nerdy. Inspired by her current hero, Jules Verne, she has learned that you can love science and be bad at math (or even bad at science!). Jules Verne, who was untrained in science, actually predicted the future in many of his adventure novels (check out From the Earth to the Moon) sheerly by keen interest and keeping close tabs on the science of his day. In her spare time, Georgette enjoys painting, good coffee, stargazing, and predicting the future with her many unfinished sci-fi novels. She is currently conducting research for her senior honors thesis on the surveillance features on the web-based Blackboard Academic Suite. A former cheerleader–and cheerleading coach–herself, she is thrilled to join the team at Science Cheerleader, and hopes that Science Cheerleaders are allowed to be afraid of heights.
