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Follow the maze to match each inventor with their invention.
Mae Jemison has always had big ________. Her big dreams took her
into space! She is the first African-American female ____________ .
In 1992, she flew aboard the space shuttle Endeavor.
Mae loved ___________ and dancing as a child. In college she
decided to ___________ medicine. After becoming a doctor,
she went to Africa with the Peace Corps. When she returned _____,
she decided to follow another dream—to be an astronaut.
Replace the
missing words.
Have you ever ridden in an elevator, worn shoes, played with a Super
Soaker or used a microphone? Then your life has been touched by an
African-American scientist.
This NASA engineer is
best known for inventing the
Super Soaker water blaster.
The success of his invention
has funded his own research
and he now has more than
100 inventions to his name.
Use the code to discover this
inventor's name.
Early
elevators
had
doors
that
had
to
be
opened
and
closed
by
hand.
Elevator
doors
that
open
and
close
automatically
made
riding
an
elevator
safer.
If
you
love
to
pick
up
a
microphone
and
sing
out
a
song,
you
will
be
glad
this
scientist
loved
electricity
and
physics.
He
invented
a
small
microphone.
His
technology
is
used
in
90
percent
of
microphones
today
and
in
cell
phones,
laptops,
baby
monitors
and
hearing
aids.
In
1914,
this
inventor
created
a
"safety
hood"
which
made
polluted
air
safer
to
breath.
This
was
an
early
version
of
the
gas
mask.
INVENTOR CODE
Photo:
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Black Inventors and Science Pioneers
Touching Lives Every Day
