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  • Escaping the Ordinary in the Classroom

    Escaping the Ordinary in the Classroom

    Grant Kightlinger and Molly Grace, co-creators of the “FairPlay Challenge.” This innovative education curriculum uses an escape room model to engage students in important life lessons. Many of us have had that experience in school of feeling trapped in a boring lesson about a topic that didn’t seem to have any relevance to our lives.…

  • Recharging the Electric Vehicle Industry

    Recharging the Electric Vehicle Industry

    Siblings Steven (left) and Zora Chung (right) co-founded technology company ReJoule. This sustainable startup is building a circular economy for EV batteries from the ground up How do you make a critically important sustainable industry even more sustainable? For electric vehicles, one of the challenges is the sustainable source itself — the lithium-ion battery. Although…

  • Achieving that Lightbulb Moment

    Achieving that Lightbulb Moment

    How two high school inventors created a flashlight to help light the way for their community’s first responders

  • This College Inventor Is Making Medicine More Equitable

    This College Inventor Is Making Medicine More Equitable

    University of Iowa sophomore Dasia Taylor has created low-cost, infection-sensing stitches.  Inventor Dasia Taylor is one of those people who seems destined to change the world. At just 14 years old, she was consulting at Harvard on the topic of equity. Now 19, Dasia is in the process of patenting her first medical device —…

  • As Earth Heats Up, This Inventor is Focused on Keeping Cool

    As Earth Heats Up, This Inventor is Focused on Keeping Cool

    As the climate heats up throughout much of the globe, more and more people are dependent on air conditioning to live comfortably. But the very technology that helps them stay cool is contributing to the rising temperatures it’s trying to combat. MIT lecturer and engineer Sorin Grama is focused on trying to break that cycle,…

  • Microtechnology, Medicine and Mentoring: One Inventor’s Formula for Success

    Microtechnology, Medicine and Mentoring: One Inventor’s Formula for Success

    Sangeeta Bhatia is a leader in advancing human health care — and a role model for other women interested in STEM. At her lab at MIT, Sangeeta Bhatia is singlehandedly inspiring a new generation of inventors through a combination of humor and pragmatism. “One thing I like to tell the students, just to set their…

  • How Adversity Led to a Lifetime of Engineering and Invention

    How Adversity Led to a Lifetime of Engineering and Invention

    Dr. Rory A. Cooper is a veteran, an athlete and the holder of more than 20 groundbreaking patents in wheelchair and other assistive technology.

  • How Two Sustainability-Minded Inventors Are Changing the Way Food Could Be Grown in the Future

    How Two Sustainability-Minded Inventors Are Changing the Way Food Could Be Grown in the Future

    Skyler Pearson and Hugh Neri are striving to make vertical farming more effective – and more affordable – through their innovative company, Nexgarden Skyler Pearson and Hugh Neri of Portland, Oregon, are not your typical farmers. They’re inventors and entrepreneurs, and they spend much of their time in front of computers, on a quest to…

  • From Medical Student to Tech Entrepreneur: How One Inventor is Transforming Health Care in Rural India

    From Medical Student to Tech Entrepreneur: How One Inventor is Transforming Health Care in Rural India

    Through his startup company, Biosense, Abhishek Sen is helping remote communities in India get better testing for some of the country’s most pervasive diseases.  How do you solve a chronic, widespread health problem in places where money and resources are scarce? That question led Abhishek Sen to co-found Biosense, a medical technology company based near…

  • Converting a Classic Car into a Zero-Carbon Ride

    Converting a Classic Car into a Zero-Carbon Ride

    This college student is tackling climate change by making eco-friendly cars more affordable.

  • During a Health Crisis, Look for the Inventors

    During a Health Crisis, Look for the Inventors

    It was a deadly pathogen that turned Jason Kang and his friends into inventors. But it’s not the one you’re thinking of. In 2014, Ebola was ravaging West Africa. Kang was a junior at Columbia University at the time. Like many other people, he wanted to help but felt there was little he could do.…