Playing At Learning is excited
to announce the NorCal Premiere of the movie
SlingShot.
Sunday 21 December
The Play Space in San Jose
6:30pm - 8pm
Tickets
SlingShot focuses
on FIRST founder, noted inventor Dean Kamen, his fascinating life,
and his 15-year quest to solve the world's water
crisis. A technological genius with a provocative worldview, Kamen
is an inspiration for future scientists. His inventions help
people in need and ease suffering. SlingShot is about an indomitable
man who just might have enough passion and innovative thinking to
create a solution for a crisis affecting billions.
Kamen lives in a house with
secret passages, a closet full of denim clothes and a helicopter
garage. His latest passion: the SlingShot water purification system
created to obliterate half of human illness on the planet. Kamen
reminisces about improving home dialysis technology and choosing
to forego parenthood while lamenting he has only one lifetime for
inventing.
SlingShot is
both an inspirational character study and a look at Kamen’s vapor
compression distiller from its earliest development through recent
trials in rural Ghana and beyond.
All proceeds from the screening will be used to support FIRST programs
in Northern California. Learn more about Playing At Learning and our efforts to support the under-served and under-represented youth of our area
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