On Wednesday, Oct. 9, three student inventors affiliated with the Lemelson-MIT Program (LMIT) shared their stories of what inspired them to invent with U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona and employees of the U.S. Department of Education attending a Hispanic Heritage Month celebration. The panel discussion, entitled 'Spotlight on Latino Student Innovators & Aspiring STEM Leaders,' was part of a larger event ('Creando Futuros Brillantes') sponsored by the White House Initiative for Hispanics. Elias Escobar Argueta, a high school junior from Calistoga, California, spoke about his LMIT InvenTeam's DulceTemperatura, a patent-pending invention designed to help farm workers keep cool and warm when working outdoors, and another device to help cool firefighters. Also participating were two former Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam students: Katia Avila Pinado from Pomona, California, who holds a patent for her team's invention, Heart and Sole; and Lesly Rojas of Salem, Oregon, whose team...
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