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Asian American Innovator: Maya Lin


Maya Lin was 21 and still a student of architecture at Yale University when she won a public contest to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC. The Memorial's black granite wall features the "58,000 names" of American soldiers who died during the Vietnam war.  The wall is V-shaped - "Lin's conception was to create an opening or a wound in the earth to symbolize the gravity of the loss of the soldiers." Though Lin's design was originally controversial it eventually won high acclaim and she went on to design other monuments, including the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama.

May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month - read more inspiring stories of Asian American innovators.

- Maya Lin had made her first model for the Veterans Memorial out of mashed potatoes in the Yale dining hall! Are you working on something too? Have an idea to knock our socks off? Enter BKFK contests now!

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