Hi👋🏾! Dr. Arlyne Simon, here. I grew up in Dominica, a small Caribbean Island. If you had asked me to draw an inventor when I was a child, I certainly would not have drawn me! As a kid, I never met an inventor and I was never taught about inventors who looked like me.

When I was five, I fell in love with science after performing my first experiment with my mom. It was messy and incredibly fun – observing if sand, salt, or pepper sauce would dissolve in water. Small beginnings, but enough to fuel my curiosity and set me on a path to become a biomedical engineer.

One day, a professor at the University of Michigan told me I could patent my ideas. Several failed experiments later, I became a patent holder. Since then, I've been on a mission to make inventing a little less mysterious for kids. So I dove head first into creating a children’s book series, called Abby Invents, featuring a girl inventor named Abby who shows young readers that kids can be among the greatest of inventors, too!

Now, say hello to SeeSoar Kids – a fun innovative hub of creatives and invention educators who are eager to develop more diverse STEM books, games, and resources to inspire young inventors from kindergarten to high school. We're all about inventing, dreaming big, and having a blast along the way. 

Let's solve problems big and small, and soar to new heights together! 

Arlyne

Founder, Biomedical Engineer, Inventor, & Author