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Handout
PBS

Pbs: Who Made America?: Innovators: Virginia Apgar

For Students 9th - 10th
One-page profile of influential innovator, Virginia Apgar, whose vision and ideas created the Apgar score which is a system of evaluating a newborn's health thus saving countless lives.
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Handout
National Women's Hall of Fame

National Women's Hall of Fame: Virginia Apgar

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Women's Hall of Fame offers a review of Ms. Apgar's life accomplishments including her most well known development of the Apgar Score system, which determines whether a newborn infant needs special attention to stay alive.
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Article
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Inventor of the Week: Virginia Apgar

For Students 3rd - 8th
At this site from MIT Invention Dimension you can read about Virginia Apgar and her accomplishments as "One of Columbia University's first female M.D.s," as a researcher of childbirth, and as the inventor of the "Newborn Scoring System."
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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: 300 Women Who Changed History: Virginia Apgar

For Students 9th - 10th
Encyclopaedia Britannica provides a biography of Virginia Apgar, the creator of the Apgar Score System, an evaluation of the condition and viability of newly-delivered infants.