GAITHERSBURG
Montgomery County • Maryland Local
“Gburg” Motto: “A Character Counts! city”
Gaithersburg, Maryland is located to the northwest of Washington. It incorporated (as a town) on April 5, 1878 and as a city in 1968. Gaithersburg is also the location of the garrison of the United States Army Reserve Legal Command.
Gaithersburg is noted for its ethnic and economic diversity; WalletHub in 2016 ranked it first among the 313 largest U.S. cities for ethnic diversity and second for social class diversity.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is headquartered in Gaithersburg. Other major employers in the city include IBM, Lockheed Martin Information Systems and Global Services business area headquarters, AstraZeneca, and is the home of French multinational corporation, Sodexo.
Gaithersburg is home to Dr. Jessica Andrea Watkins, Ph.D (May 14, 1988), an African American woman. Dr. Jessica Watkins is a NASA astronaut, geologist, aquanaut and former international rugby player. Watkins was announced as the first Black woman who will complete an International Space Station (ISS) long-term mission beginning on April 27, 2022, lasting six months.
Later, her family moved to Lafayette, Colorado, where she graduated from Fairview High School in Boulder, Colorado. She earned a bachelor’s degree in geological and environmental sciences at Stanford University. There she was a member of the rugby team. After Stanford, Watkins earned a Ph.D. in geology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
In December 2020, she was selected to be a part of the Artemis Team to return humans to the Moon. The year 2024 is the target date for the moon launch. As an African American woman, Dr. Watkins is a real inspiration to all who aspire to goals that may, at first, appear to be “out of reach” but are attainable just as Dr. Jessica Watkins has proven.
Gaithersburg always embraces local cultural equality, diversity, inclusion, equity and has many historic business-friendly local communities. Gaithersburg is rolling out the “Welcome to Gaithersburg” welcome mat to new entrepreneurs, scientists, engineers, new startups, business founders, new residents and more value-added businesses in Gaithersburg.
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