Environmental Activist Wangari Maathai - (Stem Trailblazer Bios) by Jennifer Swanson (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai started the Green Belt Movement, which educated women in villages in Kenya and paid them for every tree they planted. The program helped plant millions of trees and brought money to the villages.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Have you ever tried to come up with ways to solve a problem in your community? Wangari Maathai worked to solve an environmental crisis and help people at the same time.<br /> <br /> When Maathai was young, it was unusual for girls in Kenya to go to school, but she was determined to learn more about science and nature. As an adult, she noticed that people were cutting down too many trees. Maathai knew that forest loss was bad for the health of the environment and people. She started the Green Belt Movement, which educated women in rural villages and paid them for every tree they planted. The program helped plant millions of trees and brought money to the villages. For her environmental and human rights work, Maathai became the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>Prepare for ramped-up STEM engagement with the latest installment in the STEM Trailblazer Bios series. In four to five brisk, photo-filled chapters, entries showcase each innovator's early life, education, career, and groundbreaking achievements. <em>Code-Breaker and Mathematician Alan Turing </em>introduces the brilliant creator of the code-cracking Bombe machine. It's estimated that Turing's Bombe shaved at at least two years of WWII, saving approximately two million lives. Schwartz also addresses homophobia, the British government's 1952 condemnation of Turing, and his posthumous pardon decades later. In <em>Environmental Activist Wangari Maathai</em>, readers learn of the convention-shattering leader. Born in Kenya in 1940, Maathai valiantly combated countrywide deforestation through the Green Belt Movement, a grassroots tree-planting imitative. In 2004, Maathai became the first-ever African to win the Nobel Peace Prize. <em>Google Cybersecurity Expert Parisa Tabriz </em>spotlights the self-proclaimed Security Princess, tracing her career from college computer-security club meetings to a post as Google's fiercest white hat. <em>Science Educator and Advocate Bill Nye </em>turns the lens on the beloved science guy, an engineer who's developed suppressor tubes for Boeing, an Emmy award-winning PBS program, and two Mars-based sun dials. With boldface vocabulary words and boxed quotations throughout--as well as appended time lines, source notes, and further resources--these nimble bios are just the thing for mover and shakers in the making.</p>-- "Journal" (5/1/2018 12:00:00 AM)<br>
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