Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Author Talk with Anna Du


The State Library of Massachusetts Author Talks Series is excited to announce Anna Du as our April speaker! Anna is a student, environmental advocate, and top science fair winner!

Please join us on Wednesday, April 10th at noon, in our historic reading room to hear Anna Du discuss her book Microplastics and Me. We will also be livestreaming the talk on our YouTube channel courtesy of the Massachusetts House of Representatives Broadcast Services.


About the book: Anna Du is on a mission to solve the problem of plastics threatening our oceans and Earth. In Microplastics and Me, Anna recounts the challenging and rewarding process to design, engineer, test, and create a system to track microplastics polluting the ocean floor. Anna takes readers through the scientific process and along the way hopes to inspire her peers to go into STEM and take on global climate challenges.

About the author: Anna Du is a Massachusetts high school student. She has won many awards for her work in pollution prevention including placing first in the Massachusetts State Science and Engineering Fair. Among her many accomplishments, Anna has been named a Top Ten Young Scientist in the US, by Discovery Education and 3M, her work featured in WGBH, Huffington Post, FOX 25 News, Fast Company and Smithsonian Magazine. For more on Anna, and her research, visit her site and check out her YouTube channel, Microplastics Girl, for more!

If you are able to join us in person for this talk, attendees will be able to participate in a question-and-answer session with the author. Books will also be available to purchase; cash or Venmo accepted. As always, this author talk is free and open to all. Assisted listening devices will be made available upon request. Any questions or concerns, please email us at AuthorTalks.StateLibrary@mass.gov.

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