Let's Go Fly
For the love of MATH!
Super Friends
Women of STEM
Tinkering with Tony Stark
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This man is credited for discovering electricity by flying a kite
Benjamin Franklin
100
This mathematician is often considered one of the smartest men to have ever lived
Albert Einstein
100
This Avenger is known for inventing super powered armor that makes him look like a robot.
Iron man, Tony Stark!
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Mae Jemison went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992 and became the first African American woman in space. She is also a trained medical doctor, served as a Medical Officer in the Peace Corps and currently runs BioSentient Corp, a medical technology company.
Looking at this photo, what do you think was her job for NASA?
An astronaut
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Who do most people credit with inventing the light bulb?
Most people say Thomas Edison and if you guessed that you would be right!
But.............
........Technically
On July 11, 1892 the US Patent Office declared the first electric light bulb was invented by physicist & chemist Joseph Swan. He won the lawsuit against Edison claiming that he had first invented the electric light carbon for the first incandescent lamp
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The Wright Brothers invented the first successful airplane. The first flight was on December 17, 1903 in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
How long did the very first flight last?
12 seconds
200
What fell on Sir Isaac Newton's head that gave him the idea for the laws of gravity
an apple!
Fun Fact: that tree is still alive today at Woolsthorpe Manor in England and over 400 years old!
200
You wouldn't like this scientist when he gets angry
The Hulk or Bruce Banner
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Katherine Johnson worked for NASA and is credited for helping send astronauts to the moon with her brilliant calculations. There's a movie about her work called "Hidden Figures" and she also won the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Which STEM job did she have?
Scientist, Technologist, Engineer or Mathematician
Mathematician
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This STEM Superhero was a French naval officer, oceanographer, marine biologist and ocean explorer, known for his extensive underseas investigations.
This underwater tinker was also co-inventor of the aqualung which made SCUBA diving possible among many other underwater gadgets
Jacques Cousteau
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Before they owned their own commercial aviation company, the Wright Brothers owned this type of shop
A bicycle shop
300
Albert Einstein is best known to the general public for this formula of his, which has been dubbed
"the world's most famous equation"
300
What's the fastest that The Flash can run?
Faster than the speed of light or faster than the speed of sound?
The Flash can run faster than the speed of light which is Mach 50. Approximately 186,282 miles per second
The speed of sound (Mach 1) is only 1,088 feet per second
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Rachel Carson was an American marine biologist, author, and conservationist whose book "Silent Spring" is credited with advancing the global environmental movement which started the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Rachel studied and talked about the largest animal that ever lived! What is that animal?
The hundred foot blue whale!
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Dr. Patricia Bath is the first African-American to complete a residency in ophthalmology and the first African-American female doctor to receive a medical patent.
Which of the 5 senses did her breakthrough invention help to restore
Dr. Bath helped return the sense of SIGHT to the eyes!
In 1986, she invented the Laserphaco Probe for cataract treatment in 1986. She was able to help restore the sight of individuals, some of whom had been blind for more than 30 years
400
This famous aviator became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, and the first person ever to fly solo from Hawaii to the U.S. mainland
Amelia Earhart
400
His Principal stating that a body immersed in fluid loses weight equal to the weight of the amount of fluid it displaces is why we have very large boats that float!
Archimedes
400
Does Superman need his cape to fly?
Nope! It just looks cool!
...and it was drawn in the original comic books to show the effect that he was flying
400
Scientist, Marie Curie, is known for discovering the elements polonium and radium. Thanks to her and her discoveries, we have X-rays!
Madame Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first to win 2 and only person to win in multiple sciences!
What kind of Scientist was she?
A chemist and a physicist
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This famous Tinkerer is the only person whose name has become a verb in the Webster Dictionary!
The definition of his name means: ingeniously or unnecessarily complicated in design or construction
RUBE GOLDBERG and the Rube Goldberg Machines
Goldberg is best known for his popular cartoons depicting complicated gadgets performing simple tasks in indirect, convoluted ways.
500
This invention by the Montgolfier Brothers first took flight on September 19, 1783 with a sheep, a duck, and a rooster as it's passengers.
The first hot-air balloon
Fun Fact: Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and John Adams were present when the first person flew in Paris, France on November 21, 1783
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Alan Turing presented a theoretical machine that could solve any problem that could be described by simple instructions encoded on a paper tape. One "Turing Machine" could calculate square roots, whilst another might solve Sudoku puzzles.
What invention is Alan Turing given credit inventing?
The computer!
He designed the programming of the world first commercial computer
500
Judge Solomon Wayne, an ancestor of Bruce Wayne, hired an architect to design the city in what is known as the Gothic Revival in style and timing of the 19th Century.
What city are we talking about?
GOTHAM CITY
Fun Fact: Stone gargoyles are commonly depicted on the buildings of Gotham City, such as the thirteen gargoyles on Wayne Tower where Bruce Wayne aka Batman grew up
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This famous mathematician is known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. Eventually becoming known as the first computer programmer for all the original concepts she introduced!
Who is she?
Ada Lovelace
Fun Fact: Ada is the daughter of famous poet, Lord Byron
500
Joseph Engelberger, a self-taught tinker, created this to remove land minds after WWII so that people would be safe at a very far distance, while his invention did the dangerous work.
ROBOTS!
This was the very first robot invented and Engelberger is known as the Father of Robotics