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Line 155: === Charity screenings === After ''Hidden Figures'' was released on December 25, 2016, certain charities, institutions and independent businesses who regard the film as relevant to the cause of improving youth awareness in education and careers in the [[science, technology, engineering, and mathematics]] (STEM) fields, organized free screenings of the film in order to spread the message of the film's subject matter.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.glamour.com/story/hidden-figures-inspiring-young-women-science-and-technology\|title=The Hidden Figures Effect Is Real: How It's Inspiring Young Women to Seek Careers in Science and Technology\|first=Marissa G.\|last=Muller\|date=January 30, 2017\|work=[[Glamour (magazine)\|Glamour]]\|access-date=February 27, 2017}}</ref> A collaborative effort between Western New York STEM Hub, [[AT&T]] and the [[Girl Scouts of the USA]] allowed more than 200 [[Buffalo Public ~~School~~Schools]] students, Girl Scouts and teachers to see the film. WBFO's Senior Reporter Eileen Buckley stated the event was designed to help encourage a new generation of women to consider [[Women in STEM fields\|STEM careers]]. Research indicates that by 2020, there will be 2.4 million unfilled STEM jobs.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://news.wbfo.org/post/hidden-figures-inspire-city-students-pursue-stem-careers\|title="Hidden Figures" to inspire city students to pursue STEM careers\|first=Eileen\|last=Buckley\|date=February 1, 2017\|work=[[WBFO]]\|access-date=February 27, 2017}}</ref> Aspiring astronaut [[Naia Butler-Craig]] wrote of the film: "I can't imagine what that would have been like: 16-year-old, impressionable, curious and space-obsessed Naia finding out that Black women had something to do with getting Americans on the moon."<ref>{{Cite news\|last=Butler-Craig\|first=Naia\|title=Perspective {{!}} For 16-year-old Black girl nerds, it's good that Katherine Johnson is no longer hidden\|language=en-US\|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]\|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/02/27/16-year-old-black-girl-nerds-its-good-that-katherine-johnson-is-no-longer-hidden/\|access-date=2020-12-12\|issn=0190-8286}}</ref> Also, the film's principal actors (Henson, Spencer, Monáe and Parsons), director (Melfi), producer/musical creator (Williams), and other non-profit outside groups have offered free screenings to ''Hidden Figures'' at several cinema locations around the world. Some of the screenings were open to all-comers, while others were arranged to benefit girls, women and the underprivileged. The campaign began as individual activism by Spencer, and made a total of more than 1,500 seats for ''Hidden Figures'' available, free of charge, to poor individuals and families. The result was seven more screenings for people who otherwise might not have been able to afford to see the film - in Atlanta (sponsored by Monáe), in Washington, D.C. (sponsored by Henson), in Chicago (also Henson), in Houston (by Parsons), in Hazelwood, Missouri (by Melfi and actress/co-producer Kimberly Quinn), and in Norfolk and Virginia Beach, Virginia (both sponsored by Williams).<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://variety.com/2017/film/news/hidden-figures-free-screenings-1201971825/\|title=Free Screenings of 'Hidden Figures' Go Wide: From L.A. to Australia\|first=James\|last=Rainey\|date=January 27, 2017\|work=[[Variety (magazine)\|Variety]]\|access-date=February 27, 2017}}</ref>

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