In this ongoing class, students will learn the background of famous inventors, and their inventions that changed the world. Discover the amazing lives of Tesla, Galileo, Jobs, Archimedes, Einstein and more!

Each class, students will learn about two different inventors, their personal life history, and what some of their biggest contributions to history were. The class will be taught through a lecture and slide presentation, with openings for discussion and thoughts on each inventor.  

We will discuss some of the more famous inventors such as; Thomas Edison and Benjamin Franklin, as well as lesser known inventors like Stephanie Kwolek. We will cover inventors from the 1800's all the way up to icons like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. 

Within this class, students will learn of some of the obstacles many of these inventors faced, and how they overcame and soared above the obstacles. It is easy sometimes to feel overwhelmed by struggles, but I hope through using these great minds as examples, students will be encouraged to push through and excel to their greatest potential as these icons have.  

Week of 15/7/24 - Mae C Jemison (Astronauts)
Week of 22/7/24 - Tu Youyou (Malaria)
Week of 29/7/24 - Galileo Galilei (The Telescope)
Week of 5/8/24 - Alexander Graham Bell (The Telephone)
Week of 12/8/24- Marie Curie (Radium and Radioactivity)
Week of 19/8/24 - Ibn al-Haytham (Light)
Week of 26/8/24 - Alexander Fleming (Penicillin)
Week of 2/9/24 - Amelia Earhart (Air Travel)
Week of 9/9/24 - Robert Falcon Scott (Polar Regions)
Week of 16/9/24 - Mary Anning (Paleontology)
Week of 23/9/24 - William Smith (Strata)
Week of 30/9/24 - Inge Lehhman (The Earth's Core)
Week of 7/10/24 - Carl Linnaeus (Organising Living Things)
Week of 14/10/24 - Mary Shelley (Robots)
Week of 21/10/24 - Nicholas Appert (Preserving Food)
Week of 28/10/24 - Albert Einstein
Week of 4/11/24 - Orville and Wilbur Wright (Aircraft)
Week of 11/11/24 - Timothy Berners-Lee (World Wide Web)
Week of 18/11/24 - Ada Lovelace (Computer Programming)
Week of 25/11/24 - Archimedes (Float or Sink)
Week of 2/12/24 - Lorenzo Langstroth (Beekeeping)
Week of 9/12/24 - Rosalind Franklin (DNA)
Week of 16/12/24 - Katherine Johnson (Rockets)
Week of 23/12/24 - George Washington Carver (Botany)
Week of 30/12/24 - Charles H. Turner (Invertebrates)
Week of 6/1/25 - Charles Kao (Fibre optics)
Week of 13/1/25 - Kusala Rajendran (Seismology)

Further classes will be added.

We look forward to being part of your learning journey!