Jim Becker has been building things since he was 8. After getting a degree in biomedical engineering at Brown University in 1977, he started becker&mayer! with his high school buddy Andy Mayer. The company grew to become the largest book producer in the United States, creating among other things science kits for Scholastic and novelty book formats for Lucasfilm. Currently Jim is creative director for SmartLab, an award-winning science toy company that’s a division of becker&mayer.
