Born 24 Years Ago at RPI, Tahira Reid Smith鈥檚 鈥楯ump Dreams鈥� Are in Full Swing
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)As a third grader, Tahira Reid Smith 鈥�00, 鈥�04, Ph.D., was already thinking like an inventor.聽So, when her school, PS 97 in the Bronx, New York, held a poster contest where students were asked to depict something each of them wished he or she had, she didn鈥檛 draw a typical childhood fantasy. She designed a machine.聽Like many children in the Bronx, Reid Smith loved playing double Dutch.
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