Innovation

14-Year-Old Inventor, Kara Fan, Named ‘America’s Top Young Scientist’ For Her Nano-Silver Liquid Bandage

wyskNovember 5, 2019

14-year-old Kara Fan was just named the winner of the 2019 3M Young Scientist Challenge, an annual innovation competition hosted in partnership with Discovery ...

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U.S. Navy Master Chief (Ret.) And 6-Year-Old Girl Fuel Toy Seller To Make ‘Plastic Army Women’ Set A Reality

wyskOctober 3, 2019

For "at least 3 years", Jeff Imel, President of VictoryBuy Inc., a family owned and operated online retailer of Plastic Army Men and other classic toys, had be...

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You Should Know Monopoly Inventor Lizzie Magie… And Hasbro Should Finally Give This Trailblazer Her Credit Due

wyskSeptember 12, 2019

On Tuesday, game-maker Hasbro introduced Ms. Monopoly, "the first game in the franchise that celebrates women trailblazers." The press release goes on to say, ...

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Untold And Lost No More: Celebrating 150 Episodes Of Dale DeBakcsy’s ‘Women In Science’ You Should Know Column

wyskSeptember 5, 2019

Five years into our now eight year mission to tell the untold, often ignored, and altogether lost or erased stories of women who deserve a giant spotlight on t...

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Girl Scouts Launches 42 New STEM And Outdoor Adventure Badges… That We Want To Earn As Adults

wyskJuly 16, 2019

Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA) have just revealed 42 new STEM and Outdoor High Adventure badges exclusively for girls in grades K–12. The badges, which offer g...

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Marissa Zappas Aims To Disrupt The Fragrance Industry By Using Scent To Connect Women Of The Past To Women Today

wyskMay 10, 2019

Marissa Zappas is an anthropologist turned perfumer who has combined her two passions into an artisan fragrance collection called Redamance. It’s a historical ...

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From Where I Stand: “We are trying to build a drone…to dispense medicines in rural areas” – 15-Year-Old Coder, Eno Ekanem, Abuja, Nigeria

wyskApril 25, 2019

By UN Women - Fifteen-year-old Eno Ekanem was among 80 girls from 34 African countries who attended the first Coding Camp in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 24 August...

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Downloadable STEM Role Models Posters Celebrate Women Innovators As Illustrated By Women Artists

wyskFebruary 11, 2019

Now at the end of its second season, Nevertheless, a truly WYSKy podcast that tells the stories of women who are transforming teaching and learning through tec...

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Mathematician Dr. Gladys West Inducted Into Air Force Pioneers Hall of Fame

wyskJanuary 16, 2019

On December 6, 2018, 87-year-old mathematician Dr. Gladys West was presented with the Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers award for her decades of contributio...

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