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How to be an inventor and entrepreneur

Futurum

How to be an inventor and entrepreneur Published: 26-year-old Anthony Camu has been awarded the Innovate UK’s Young Innovators Award for Theia , a handheld orientation and mobility device for blind and partially sighted people. Why did you study industrial design and technology at Loughborough University?

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Hour of Code: How Students Can Build Their Own Apps

Ask a Tech Teacher

How do we get kids excited about careers that traditionally sound boring and math-oriented? In my high school teacher forums, as part of the discussion on preparing kids for college and career, we talk a lot about the huge shortfall in applicants for a growing list of tech jobs. Time to reveal a secret I learned over the years.

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Science Like A Girl – Inventor and Author Arlyne Simon

Smore Science

Her years as a keen observer have taken her from biomedical engineer to inventor to entrepreneur to author, and she is keeping her eyes and mind open for whatever might come next. When a nurse hooks a syringe to a syringe pump, she isn’t thinking about the regulations and research it took to ensure a to save a life. She crocheted.

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STEAM In History: Fionn Ferreira

PCS Edventures

Our planet may be closer to a cleaner, greener future thanks to one young inventor's passion for protecting the environment. Today, he is an entrepreneur hoping to turn his once-homemade device into a global water treatment solution. Who is Fionn Ferreira? Fionn Ferreira’s mission to protect the environment has only just begun.

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6 Books and STEM Challenges to Celebrate Black History Month

Carly and Adam

She had no clue how much sexism and racial inequality she’d be up against, but she stayed determined through the challenges and is now credited as the pioneer who changed the course of ship design. This tinkering boy became the inventor of the popular toy we know today as the Super Soaker.

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“Anyone can be an entrepreneur” with help of U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

STEMx

As STEM educators and supporters of STEM schools, you work with the inventors of the future — your students. How did the great U.S. inventors grapple with the triumphs and failures of innovating and still persevere? A: We want to encourage and support American inventors of all ages, fields and backgrounds. A: The USPTO’s.

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Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories

Stephen Wolfram

Programmer of the Universe “OK, so let me tell you…” And so it would begin. A long and colorful story. An elaborate description of a wild idea. In the forty years I knew Ed Fredkin I heard countless wild ideas and colorful stories from him. He always radiated a certain adventurous joy—together with supreme, almost-childlike confidence.