MEMBERS & VISITORS: African Teen Named ‘America’s Top Young Scientist’ Heman Bekele, a 14-year-old boy from Frost Middle School, won the 2023 3M Young Scientist Challenge after creating a soap that treats skin cancer. We have published other informative posts on Invention School’s website which may interest you. To view our entire catalog of […]

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  MEMBERS & VISITORS: Mr. Wizard sparked my science career. I used to just LOVE watching Mr. Wizard on television when I was a little boy. He performed some of the neatest stuff I ever saw and I could tell that he really liked kids and sincerely wanted us to learn about the things he […]

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  MEMBERS & VISITORS: Yes, Engineers Innovate Roller Coasters Inventiveness and innovation takes place in all fields of human endeavor, including playing and having fun. Personally, I’m playing and having fun designing products and systems designed to raise the economies of Africa and increase the well-being of the people around me. Perhaps my ideas and […]

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  MEMBERS & VISITORS: What Is Kenya’s GEARBOX? This video presents an overview of Gearbox and Gearbox Europlacer as a hardware incubator and enabler. Our Innovation development at Tharaka Invention Academy can certainly use the services of Gearbox when we develop prototypes of our inventions. We have published other informative posts on Invention School’s website […]

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  MEMBERS & VISITORS: Meet Four Young Innovative Kenyan Engineers A story of young engineers that are transforming their passion for hardware development into marketable solutions in agriculture. We have published other informative posts on Invention School’s website which may interest you. To view our entire catalog of over 800 posts go to inventionschool.tech/category/blog/ or […]

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  MEMBERS & VISITORS: Those 3 AM Dreams DOES ART IMITATE LIFE OR VICE VERSA? This is the kind of 3 AM dream one has when they’re up to their eyeballs in dreams about the future. Professor Singer had always been fascinated by the continent of Africa. Growing up as an African American in the […]

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  MEMBERS & VISITORS FUTURE BY DESIGN What will be Africa’s Future By Design? The young African inventors I will be mentoring in Marimanti, Kenya will need to be familiar with the work and aspirations of other inventors before them. After all, the future well-being of the African continent is in their hands and they […]

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  MEMBERS & VISITORS GO TOGETHER GO TOGETHER The technological progress of Africa and its Diasporans was dramatically broken beginning with slavery and later through its colonization by European powers up to today’s aspirants from China, European Union, America, and India. With the arrival of the 21st century, a new era of an awakened Africa […]

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  MEMBERS & VISITORS Wake Up Young Africans and Transform The Continent Dr. Thomas Mensah is a Ghanaian-American chemical engineer and inventor, who contributed to the development of fiber optics and nanotechnology. He has 14 patents and was inducted into the US National Academy of Inventors in 2015. Read Dr. Mensah’s book “The Right Stuff […]

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