BAYONNE -- Students at Nicholas Oresko Community School are sharing their knowledge of some of America's finest academics, inventors, and engineers for Black History Month.

Fourth grade students at the school were assigned to research black inventors, engineers and pioneers in their respective fields.

The students selected luminaries including Mark Dean, computer engineer; Patricia Bath, renowned ophthalmologist; Lewis Latimer, an inventor known for his contributions to the patenting of the light bulb and telephone; Katherine Johnson, a physicist and mathematician; and Charles B. Brooks, inventor of the street sweeper; among others.

Students focused on the ingenuity and accomplishments of black scientists and pioneers by sharing information about their many contributions to America's history, said Jacqueline Lewis, a teacher at Nicolas Oresko Community School.

Scroll through the gallery above to see the students projects.

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