Tahira Reid Smith

I’m a professor and the founder of Jump Dreams, Inc., a robotics company launched to market and sell my Automatic Double Dutch Machine and other related items.

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Interviews of/Presentations by Tahira on YouTube

Today Show Video Interview with Katie Couric and Al Roker

TEDx Talk - "Notice Innovation" - Telling some of my invention story

Keynote to Black Graduate Students Banquet ("How to Run Your Unique Race: My Journey of Becoming")

How A Professor Learned to Put Compassion Into Engineering and Design

Inventive Minds Interview

Inspiring STEM Pathways

Links to Articles Online

02/14/2000

Patents: Inventor Makes Good on a 3rd Grade Notion

New York Times

08/13/2000

Grad is Learning the Ropes: Inventor of Automatic Jump Rope Machine Won't Skip a Beat

The New York Post

02/18/2021

Game Changers Inventor Spotlight: Tahira Reid Smith

The Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation

November 24, 2022

Be thankful this season for these inventions from black women inventors we use on the daily

Ebony Magazine

10/3/2023

Black History Month: Seven groundbreaking products that were invented by Black women

Mirror (A United Kingdom Publication)

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