Tag: STEM

12-Year-Old Scientist Iris Gupta Develops a Plan for Stopping Allergies

LINK: READ IT IN MENTAL FLOSS

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Japan’s Chiba Institute of Technology Creates Star Wars Droidekas

LINK: Presented at IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

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New Non-Profit Aims to Increase the Number of Black Engineers in the Tech Industry

LINK: READ ABOUT IT HERE IN ATLANTA BLACKSTAR

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Luju Ojha: Nepalese-American Death Metal guitarist Finds Water on Mars

LINK: Grad student, guitarist and scientific jack-of-all-trades…

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Blackbird: Former Twitter Employee’s Perspective On Race & Tech

LINK 27% of Twitter users are black. 4% of Twitter employees are black.

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Ahmed Mohamed withdraws from racist MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas

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5 Ways to Support Minority Students in STEM

Ahmed Mohamed isn’t the only kid with big ideas

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Being Black at Google

Black employees @ tech giant building their own community in an industry lacking diversity

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The scholars of Baghdad’s House of Wisdom, Steve Jobs & your iPhone

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9th-grader arrested after taking homemade clock to school

Ahmed Mohamed, 14, was taken in handcuffs to juvenile detention

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