Young Inventors
Classroom A

Lessons

Teachers

Mr. Burns

Contact: sburns2@oswego.edu

Interests and Hobbies: I enjoy playing lacrosse and watching sports!

Mr. Ellers

Contact: dellers@oswego.edu

Interests and Hobbies: I enjoy participating in video game competitions and watching hockey. I also have a black cat named Ashes!

Mr. Ubbink

Contact: mubbink@oswego.edu

Interests and Hobbies: I enjoy working on projects in my shop and hiking.

Student and/or Activity Photos

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Rowlan

Displaying his new pirate ship from lesson 2.

Rowlan

Communicating with his classmates and teachers about his design from lesson 3.

Teaching photos

Mr. Ellers

Mr. Ellers showing his students examples of plastic straw airplane designs.

YI- Classroom A for Mary Anderson

Mary Elizabeth Anderson (February 19, 1866 – June 27, 1953) was an American real estate developer, rancher, viticulturist, and inventor of the windshield wiper blade. In a visit to New York City in the winter of 1903, in a trolley car on a frosty day, Anderson observed that a trolley car driver struggled to see past the windows because of the falling sleet. When she returned to Alabama she hired a designer for a hand-operated device to keep a windshield clear and had a local company produce a working model. On November 10, 1903, Anderson was granted her first patent for an automatic car window cleaning device controlled from inside the car, called the windshield wiper.