Sep 15 – Oct 15 · 4 weeks
🎉 Hispanic Heritage Month
From September 15 to October 15 we celebrate Hispanic and Latino innovators who changed science and technology.
Innovator of the week
Week 1
Ellen Ochoa
Engineer, inventor, and the first Hispanic woman in space
Mexican American (her grandparents came from Mexico)
Week 2Guillermo González Camarena
The young Mexican engineer who brought color to television
Mexican (born in Guadalajara, raised in Mexico City)
Week 3Franklin Chang Díaz
Seven-time shuttle astronaut building a rocket that runs on plasma
Costa Rican American (Costa Rican mother, father of Chinese descent)
Week 4Luis von Ahn
Turned internet puzzles into digitized books and free language lessons
Guatemalan (born in Guatemala City)