Women of the Manhattan Project
As part of Women’s History Month in March, the Energy Department’s digital team developed a coloring book honoring women scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project, the top-secret program during World War II that ushered in the nuclear age.
For the profiles, a content specialist conducted research to write blog posts on four inspiring individual scientists and one group of women called the Calutron Girls, who monitored a machine that separated enriched uranium isotopes. For the visuals in each blog post, a graphic designer created sketches based off historical photos. During Women’s History Month, the digital team published one blog post a month, which were also shared on the Energy Department’s social media channels.
After all of the blog posts were published, the designer reformatted and repacked the visuals and text to make a coloring book, which can be downloaded for free on Energy.gov. The coloring book is distributed at Energy Department-supported STEM events around the country.
See the complete coverage and download the coloring book at https://www.energy.gov/downloads/coloring-book-women-manhattan-project.
