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***Based on the award-winning movie and developing TV series"TellMe Who I Am" on www.kidpositive.tv*** A fun, challenging gamethatintroduces players to scientists, inventors, engineersandphysicians. Quickly match the faces and names of 30"scienceleaders" with their historic accomplishments and see ifyour scoreplaces you on the Top 10 Leaderboard. FEATURES Challengeyourknowledge, memory and quick response skills! Entire familywillenjoy playing, learning and competing for best score...bestforAges 9+. Younger children can play with parents...learning tomatchfaces with names they hear. Parents and teachers...play thegamefirst and learn the answers then play with your childrenorstudents. Clock countdown keeps game fast paced and energized.Hasconvenient pause button. Automatically updated with new leaderssogame stays fresh and challenging. Submit your ownrecommendationsfor new leaders to add to the game. Great as anextra-curricularhome assignment or in-class learning competition.Give as anassignment and require students to share their scores bytakingscreenshot and sending text or email or sharing in a privategroup.You can also share game scores on Facebook directly from theapp ifyou want to publicly share or compare with others. Look fornewlevels to be continually added! OBJECTIVE The ultimate objectiveofthe game is to reach the maximum score of 160 and get listed ontheTop 10 Leaderboard. Players win the most points byansweringcorrectly as quickly as possible. You must first achieveat least75 combined points on the first 5 levels in order toadvance toBonus Level 6, which is locked. CREATIVE SCIENTIFICGENIUSESIncludes: George Carruthers (invented camera that examinesearth'satmosphere for pollutants) Patricia Bath (invented a deviceandtechnique for cataract removal) Ernest Champelle (discovered anewmethod to determine if extraterrestrial life reallyexists)Katherine Johnson (calculated precise math formulas key tosendingastronauts to the Moon) Benjamin Banneker (inventedfirststriking clock in America) Christine Darden (NASA scientistworkingto solve sonic boom factor) Elijah McCoy (invented a devicethatimproved train travel. Mae C. Jemison (first African Americanwomanin space) James West (developed a device that is now used in90percent of all contemporary microphones) Just to name afew!LEARNING Improve reading Learn about science and history Engageincritical thinking Boost motivation to learn Get introduced tonewscience careers •Great STEM career motivator as students gettoknow amazing African Americans in science, technology,engineeringand science. •A good resource for Black History Month toencouragelearning about African American scientists andinventors.•Teachers, homeschoolers, parents and enrichment programdirectorswill want to assign students the mobile game app to takeadvantageof the ubiquity of mobile devices in the lives of kids andteenstoday. •After playing the game several times in an attempttoachieve the highest possible score, players will come to knoweachof the 30 science leaders and at least one oftheiraccomplishments. •To extend this new knowledge, curiosityandinterest from playing the game, infuse curricula with followuplessons in science, reading, writing, geography, history andlifeskills in an engaging way. •To assist with withlearning,KidPositive is releasing later this year the TellMeWhoIAmScienceLeaders Learning Kit, and the Science Leaders mobile gamewill be akey resource in that curriculum for teachers and parents.•Althoughthe game can and should be played by the entire family,the primarytarget age group for educational purposes is 9-14.ADDING NEW GAMELEVELS We will add new levels to the game to make itincreasinglyfun and challenging as well as introduce new Tell MeWho I Am gamesin the future.