Actors and husband and wife team Derek and Sophia Luke are continuing forth with their efforts to support professor Christ Emdin's Science Genius Rap B.A.T.T.L.E.S. amid the pandemic by making the contest virtual
Since 2013, actor Derek Luke has led the Science Genius Rap B.A.T.T.L.E.S. program, combining hip-hop music and culture with STEM education to change how students, and teachers, engage.
Alongside wife, actress Sophia Luke, and Columbia University professor Chris Emdin, Luke has for the last six years invited students from New York, Texas, Toronto and Jamaica to write and perform science-themed raps in city-wide battles, with past judges and mentors including Wu-Tang Clan’s GZA, DJ D-Nice and Neil DeGrasse Tyson. This year, the challenge takes on new life, as it will be available publicly via social media and Zoom now through mid-July.
“There has never been a shortage of information but rather a shortage of proper presentation, and COVID-19 has further exposed those weaknesses in the education system,” Luke tells.
Verses will be written to a beat by Grammy-winning producer Theron “Neff-U” Feemster, and can be submitted on the challenge’s
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