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Becky Schroeder
Glo-Sheet
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Becky invented the Glo-sheet when she was 10 years
old in 1972. Two years later in 1974, she was the youngest female
ever to receive a U.S. Patent.
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She had the idea when she was sitting in the family car doing her homework
while her mother was buying groceries. It was getting dark and she
was having trouble writing. She thought it would be pretty cool if you could write in
the dark.
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She looked for potential ways to make her paper
glow in the dark. She found glow-in-the-dark Frisbees in her toy box,
did some research and learned that they used
phosphorescence.
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It sounds like a fun game, right? But it became
so much more!
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