article_snippet: As far as Freshman Katy Ma knew growing in Philadelphia, the white men featured in public monuments were the only people who made noteworthy contributions to history.
article_snippet: Freshman Katy Ma and a group of girls around the world spent the past five months researching locations of significance in the lives of women who don't always get a mention in history class.
article_snippet: Most of the women have Wikipedia pages or obits online; far fewer have parks, squares or monuments named for the women.
article_snippet: the women have been edited from history not because the women didn't make meaningful contributions to society but because someone deemed the women stories not worthy of being told.
article_snippet: Take for example, Deborah Sampson, who disguised herself as a man so herself could fight in the Revolutionary War.
article_snippet: Saini, a student at Middlesex County Academy for Science, Mathematics and Engineering Technologies in New Jersey, knows firsthand that women's contributions to science, technology, engineering and math don't usually make it into the lesson plan.
article_snippet: It's time we recognized the female scientists, researchers, musicians who are invisible to we," herself said.
article_snippet: They definitely existed, we just don't learn about They.
highlights_snippet: Teen activist group SPARK researches history's "invisible" women .
  