Video Description: In this archived interactive program in the area of STEAM/STEM, we ask the big picture question:  How do you create a new invention?   View this archived program to learn directly from inventors.  Meet Dr. Samuel Achilefu, professor at Washington University in St. Louis and inventor of “cancer goggles” that are changing the way surgeons are able to operate on cancer patients.  And meet five St. Louis area middle school students who were honored at the White House Science Fair for their creation of an environmentally friendly process for Styrofoam recycling and an environmentally friendly adhesive.

Grade Levels: 3 through 8

Transcript and supplemental curriculum materials are available below.

Shorter, individual segments have been edited from the archived program to provide additional options for use in the classroom and independent student use, as well as use in differentiated learning activities included in the supplemental curriculum materials below.  Those video segments may be found here.