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Pipelines and Pathways: Invention Education, Training, and Mentoring
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Session 2 of the Smithsonian Lemelson Center's Black Inventors and Innovators: New Perspectives series. Recorded Live on Tuesday, November 17, 2020. Speakers include: Amy E. Slaton, Professor, Department of History, Drexel University; James Holly, Jr., Assistant Professor of Urban Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics Education, Wayne State University; Moderator: Yolanda L. Comedy, Science and Technology Policy Consultant. Black scientists, engineers, and inventors are underrepresented at every stage of the innovation economy, from STEM education to high-tech employment to patenting and commercialization rates. In response, Black technologists have built institutions—including HBCUs, the National Society of Black Engineers, and Black Girls Code, among others—to forge pathways to technology careers. Decades of efforts to diversify the STEM workforce, however, have had modest impact on overall participation rates. Speakers in this session will discuss why efforts to diversify the STEM pipeline have fallen short and examine what works—and doesn’t work—in invention education, training, and mentoring.
