Inspiring STEM Pathways: Anthony "Tony" Ruto

Director of Research Engineering at the design software firm Autodesk, Anthony Ruto grew up in a small town in rural Kenya, Africa, before moving to the city of Nairobi and then to Britain when he was 17. Tony attended Cambridge University, where he studied computer-based design and developed new ways of scanning human bodies that made it possible to build improved avatars for movies, video games, clothing designers, and other applications. He now works in “generative design” at Autodesk and has led engineering projects ranging from totally new designs for chairs to improved Formula 1 racecars.
Inspiring STEM Pathways, a Smithsonian's Lemelson Center project, presents first-hand accounts from interviews with living inventors who work in a variety of fields and organizations. The videos and learning materials are intended to encourage students to pursue STEM fields by seeing role models speaking about their interests and passions, challenges they encountered and how they overcame them, and how they draw on curiosity and resiliency in their daily work.
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