2017
It was the end of the school year at Garey High School, one of four high schools in California’s Pomona Unified School District, when Science Department Chair Antonio Gamboa received an email about the Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam initiative. He read the message aloud to the three students hanging out in his classroom and was about to hit “delete” when Evelyn Casas one student said, “I want to invent something.