STEM trailblazer bios
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
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Discusses the life of the gaming pioneer, including her childhood love of video games, her early work with alternate reality games, and why she believes that games can solve real-world problems.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
800L
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English
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Have you ever wished you could use technology to improve people's lives? Ever since he was a teenager, Sebastian Thrun wanted to build machines that helped people. So far, Thrun has developed robots that can be tour guides and nurses and can help save miners trapped underground. In 2004, he won a US Department of Defense contest by building a car that could drive itself. Since then, the self-driving cars he developed have been tested on more than...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
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An uplifting portrait of a leading NASA engineer describes her childhood ambition to pursue a life in science, her achievement as her university's first woman to receive a Ph.D. in her field and her pivotal role in building history-making spacecraft. --Publsiher's description.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
840L
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English
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Ruchi Sanghvi helped design Facebook features. She joined Facebook--then a small Silicon Valley startup company--after moving from India to the United States to study computer engineering. With her help, Facebook quickly became one of the largest social networking sites in the world.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
820L
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English
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"Growing up, Joanna L. Kelley was quizzed at the dinner table. As an adult, she's answering even tougher questions. Her research helps scientists treat tumors and understand evolution. Learn how Joanna became a genetics superstar."--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
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As a young boy, Nick Woodman, enjoyed snapping photos--but when he was growing up, most of his activities weren't camera-safe. Woodman was a diehard surfer. He couldn't hold a camera--or keep it dry--while he was boarding. So many of his memorable moments went unrecorded.
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[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
"Read about the life stories and significant contributions of some of today's most accomplished figures in STEM fields. Narrative nonfiction text explores key details from each person's life, often including the pivotal moment that led them to their STEM career."--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
720L
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English
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Are you a fan of computers? When Elon Musk was growing up, he taught himself computer programming so he could design his own games. As an adult, he set out to design much more complex tech inventions.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
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"Brian Greene's father taught him to look at the world in different ways. Years later, he started helping others understand the universe from new perspectives. Learn how Brian became a physics expert and bestselling author."--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Do you play computer games? If you do, you've probably played Minecraft. When Minecraft creator Markus Persson was young, he wasn't very interested in the games themselves. He was more interested in the programing instructions in the computer's manual. By the time Persson was eight years old, he was writing code for his own computer games.
When he was eighteen, Persson landed his dream job as a video game programmer. In 2009, he designed Minecraft...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
Do you play video games? If you do, you've probably played a game designed by Shigeru Miyamoto. Miyamoto pioneered a new kind of game based on story and characters, rather than competition with other players. As a child, Miyamoto was fascinated by animated movies. He drew his own cartoons and designed children's toys. In college, Miyamoto studied art and design. He was hired as an artist at Nintendo, a toy company that was just starting to make video...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
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"Have you ever wondered who developed computer coding? Discover how Ada Lovelace's interest in mathematics led to her work on an early computer and the first programming algorithm ever used"--Provided by publisher.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! Do you like to gaze at the stars? So did the young Stephen Hawking. Eventually, he turned his fascination with the night sky into a career of trying to figure out how the universe began and how it works.
As a child, Hawking loved the stars and he loved math class. In college, he studied physics and cosmology, or how the universe came...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After earning degrees studying animal behavior, Danielle Lee wanted to share her love of science with young people. Through urban outreach she has brought budding scientists into professional labs. She's walked them through the steps of the scientific method. And she's shown them that science doesn't have to be intimidating. In her popular Urban Scientist blog, Lee shares backyard science and outreach work. She also writes about her own research and...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
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"Do you ever dream of traveling to the stars? While watching Star Trek on television as a child, Mae Jemison was certain she would one day visit space. As an adult, she made this dream a reality and became the first black woman to serve as a NASA astronaut."--
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
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Description
As a kid, Lonnie Johnson liked to invent things. He often faced prejudice as an African American growing up in the segregated southern United States, but he eventually became an engineer for the US Air Force and NASA. He was working on a different invention when he came up with the idea for a new type of water gun. Johnson knew his toy was more powerful than other squirt guns, he just needed to find a way to make the Super Soaker available to kids...