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Catherine Thimmesh is an award-winning author, speaker, and creativity educator.   Her creative children’ s nonfiction titles have won numerous awards, including the prestigious Sibert Medal for  Team Moon:  How 400, 000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon  and a Sibert Honor for Camp Panda: Helping Cubs Return to the Wild. Madam President was a New York Times Notable book, and  her bestselling Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women  won the IRA Children’ s Book Award and was followed by Girls Solve Everything: Stories of Women Entrepreneurs Building a Better World.   You can watch her discuss the importance of creativity in her TEDx Talk, “ Creativity in the Classroom (in 5 minutes or less!), ” on YouTube or her website, catherinethimmesh. com. Catherine lives near Minneapolis, in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.  

Shanda McCloskey  is the award-winning author and illustrator of STEM-friendly picture books like  Doll-E 1. 0,   a 2019 NSTA Best STEM Book Winner, and  T-Bone the Drone, a Sunshine State Young Readers Award Jr. Nominee. She  lives in Ball Ground, Georgia, and enjoys  visiting schools.   Learn more at  shandamc. com.