National STEM Festival On April 13, 2024, the first-ever national STEM festival was held in Washington, D.C. It featured 150 student inventions designed to address solutions to critical global issues. One Utah high schooler, Alex Antonio Hernandez Juarez, grew up with a deaf cousin and was inspired to design a tool to help the deaf community. He ended up creating a device that uses a camera to help translate sign language into a written and spoken form. To learn more about th
