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Mae Jemison's Childhood Mae Jemison was born in Decatur Alabama, on October 17, 1955. She was the youngest of her three sisters. Her mother worked at Beethoven School in Chicago and her dad was a maintenance supervisor for a charity organazation. When Mae was only 3 years old her family had move to Chicago,Illinois because of the poor school's. As she got older she found that a way to get closer to science is to study nature.She has wanted to be a scientest ever sense she was little. But she also she loved the arts so when Mae was 9 years old she started dancing.Mae did all kinds of dancing like African,ballet,jazz,modern and japanese dancing. During her years at Cornell Medical College, Jemison took lessons in modern dance at the Alvin Ailey school.Jemison later built a dance studio in her home and has choreographed and produced several shows of modern jazz and African dance. Mae Jemsion tryed out for a school play called Wset Side Story (it was a dancing play) she wanted the lead roll Maria.When she was in high school she finaly decided to become an astronaut. My sources were: www.angelfier.com, www.thinkquest.com, www.wikipeda.com