Innovator Spotlight

LuminAID In celebration of World IP Day “Innovate for a Green Future,” IPO Education Foundation is celebrating the founders of LuminAID, Andrea Sreshta and Anna Stork. The two college friends invented the world’s first solar-powered inflatable light to provide disaster

Each year, World IP Day is celebrated on April 26 to promote the role intellectual property rights play in promoting innovation and creativity. This year, the World IP Organization selected the theme “Innovate for a Green Future” to highlight the

It now seems commonplace to communicate on the internet through audio and/or video. We can thank Marian Rogers Croak for this technology. Upon joining AT&T in 1982, Croak was a strong advocate for leaving wired phone technology in the past.

California native Ellen Ochoa earned her bachelor’s degree in physics and a master’s and doctorate degree in electrical engineering. Working as a researcher at NASA, Ochoa went on to be listed as co-inventor on three patents. She is the first

Mary Sherman Morgan, America’s first female rocket scientist, was raised on a farm in North Dakota. She didn’t start school until the age of eight after a sheriff and social worker forced her parents to send her. Mary’s love of

Born in 1930 in East China, Tu Youyou was taught the importance of education at an early age. After contracting tuberculosis and being forced to sit out from school at age 16, Tu returned to the classroom determined to study