As a member of the National Inventors Hall of Fame, JTEC Founder Dr. Lonnie Johnson judged the 2022 Collegiate Inventors Competition in Alexandria, Virginia at the US Patent and Trademark Office Headquarters. Read more about the Undergraduate and Graduate student winners and their inventions.
From an article by Hope Williams for the Georgia Tech Technique. Alumna Niesha Butler opens S.T.E.A.M. Champs Tech alumna Niesha Butler is the founder of S.T.E.A.M Champs education center in New York City. Butler has had numerous careers, from being a software engineer to a professional basketball player. // Photo by Hope Williams Student Publications […]
JTEC Energy cited as the recipient of one of the three largest investments in 2022 for Atlanta companies with Black founders. by Zach Armstrong for Atlanta Inno Barbara Jones-Brown was trying to raise capital for Lilli RNB Inc., her retail technology startup that analyzes return data and detects fraud. One day, she was invited to pitch her company […]
Excerpted from an article by Markos Papadatos for Digital Journal. Read the full article here. Acclaimed actress Danica McKellar emceed the National Inventors Hall of Fame Awards this year. She honored some very noteworthy inventors. “I am so incredibly proud to have been asked to emcee the National Inventors Hall of Fame Awards again this […]
Press Release ATLANTA, May 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — JTEC Energy and Johnson Energy Storage announced that the companies’ founder, Super Soaker inventor Dr. Lonnie Johnson, was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. The induction ceremony was held in Washington, D.C. on May 5, 2022. Dr. Johnson was joined by his family and by […]
JTEC Energy is proud to announce that our founder, Dr. Lonnie Johnson, is being inducted this week into the National Inventors Hall of Fame: April 26, 2022 Press Release from the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Read full release here. NORTH CANTON, OH — Five innovation pioneers whose inventions range from cataract surgery to the […]
By Zach Armstrong for Atlanta Inno – read full article here. JTEC Energy Inc. Founder Lonnie Johnson, left, and President and CEO Michael McQuary. Photo: Byron E. Small Lonnie Johnson, former NASA engineer and inventor of the Super Soaker children’s toy, is one step closer to commercializing a new source of renewable energy. Johnson […]
Karen Lorre interviews JTEC founder Dr. Lonnie Johnson and CEO Mike McQuary for her “Stories We Love” Podcast.
Article by Neal Augenstein for WTOP News. Read original article here. Super Soaker inventor: ‘Put it on the table and let it stand on its merit’ It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out why generations love the Super Soaker line of water guns. “I’ve been accused of being a rocket scientist,” laughs Lonnie […]
By Dora Mekouar for Voice of America. The folding chair, gas mask, traffic signal, automatic elevator doors, potato chips and the Super Soaker childrens’s water gun toy were all invented by Black innovators. From the three-light traffic signal, refrigerated trucks, automatic elevator doors, color monitors for desktop computers, to the shape of the modern […]