Black Inventors Who Made the Stuff Around Us

In this program, scientist Ainissa Ramirez will share inventions that we use everyday that were created by Black inventors—from the light bulb to the mailbox to ice cream.  This hands-on STEM event will have demonstrations featuring Jim West’s microphone as well as mathematician Gladys West’s work in helping to create GPS. For grades K-4.

Bio:

Ainissa Ramirez is a science evangelist.  She received her doctorate in materials science and engineering from Stanford and began her career as a scientist at Bell Labs. She then joined the faculty at Yale. Now, she  focuses her energies on making science understandable to kids of all ages. Her latest children’s book, “Spark” is about the African American inventor behind the microphone.  Ainissa Ramirez lives in New Haven, CT.