Dr. Gladys Mae West --- Helped Develped the GPS

Early life and education

West was born in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, to a farming family in a community of sharecroppers.

 After gaining a scholarship for achieving the first place in her high-school class, she studied mathematics at Virginia State College.

 After graduating she taught for around two years.

 Virginia State University (VSU), also known as Virginia State, is a historically black public land-grant university in Ettrick, Virginia.

 Founded on March 6, 1882, Virginia State developed as the United States's first fully state-supported four-year institution of higher learning for black Americans. 

The university is a member school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund.