Last Look: Interview With Lindsey Jenkins-Stark, Vice President of Iridescent

"These learning experiences are designed by engineers who lead five-week courses for the families at the school sites in the evenings," she says. "Topics illustrate the real-world applications of science concepts and range from the physics of MRI to bird flight aerodynamics."

Iridescent started operations in August 2006. Since then, it has trained 185 engineers who have conducted 120 courses reaching 4,000 underserved children and parents at 74 sites in three cities. Three main areas of impact have been: