7th Grade

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THANK AN INVENTOR - WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH: Some debate how to pronounce "GIF" (GIF or JIF...), but we all love to use them! Lisa Gelobter was closely involved with the 1995 creation of Shockwave as a software engineer, the technology that helped to develop web animation, like GIFs! She also helped launch Hulu and served on the senior management team.

THANK AN INVENTOR - WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH: Top Hat or Racecar? Elizabeth Magie's "The Landlord's Game," was patented in 1904, 30 years before a very similar game called Monopoly was picked up by Parker Brothers.

Join in the fun of March Madness by showing your spirit by wearing the following:

Friday, March 19th - Mismatch Day - Wear clothing that do not match 

Monday, March 22nd - Spring-Ford Spirit - Wear Spring-Ford logo clothing

Monday, March 29th - Gear Up or Dress Up

Tuesday, March 30th - Sports hat or headband

Tuesday, April 6th - Team Jersey Day

THANK AN INVENTOR - WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH: While working as a weaver, Tabitha Babbitt watched people struggling to cut wood with a pit saw, which required two users and only cut in one direction. Determined to help, she attached a circular blade to her spinning wheel and invented the much more efficient circular saw.

THANK AN INVENTOR - WOMAN'S HISTORY MONTH: Anna Stork and Andrea Sreshta were graduate students at Columbia University's School of Architecture when the devastating earthquake hit Haiti in 2010; in one of their classes, they were assigned a project to find a way to help with disaster relief. After speaking to a relief worker, Stork and Sreshta realized that there was an often-forgotten need after disasters strike: light. The pair decided to create an inflatable, waterproof, and solar-powered light, the LuminAID Solar Light. Their design can be packed flat, charges in 6 hours to provide light for 16, and even features a handle to make it easy to carry. They used a crowdfunding campaign to make their first 1,000 lights, and after LuminAID became a favorite with outdoor enthusiasts — and in home emergency kits — they started a Give Light Project: one light is donated for every light purchased. They have since provided lights to Nepal and to Syrian refugees. Thanks to the work of these two creative innovators, more people will have access to the gift of light during the darkest of times.

 If you are interested in joining the Aevidum Club, email Ms. Heiman aheim@spring-ford.net or Ms. Bologa at tbolo@spring-ford.net.  You will then be added to the Aevidum Canvas page where you will find information about the club and the ZOOM link to join the meetings.

To answer, or send to voice mail... that is the question. Dr. Shirley Jackson is an American physicist who received her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1973. She was the first African-American woman to earn a doctorate in nuclear physics at MIT. Her experiments with theoretical physics paved the way for numerous developments in the telecommunication space including the touch-tone telephone, the portable fax, caller ID, call waiting, and the fiber-optic cable.