[2] After earning her BA, she worked in Newport News, VA and then Washington DC, and on field mapping teams in the Southwest for the USGS.
[2] In 1976, Gardipe with Al Qöyawayma, and Arnold Anderson formed the American Indian Engineering Council (AIEC).
[4] In 1981, she was guest speaker and was a member of the screening committee for the Science and Self-Determination program at University Colorado Boulder.
[8] The aim of the program was to acquaint American Indian high school students with first hand information about careers in science and to provide academic support that would improve performance on college entrance tests so these students would be able to access to careers in science and/or math at the university level.
[9] In 2003, she received the Ely S. Parker Award, the highest honor of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society.