Since 2018, Project Invent has been a product of thousands of donors, teachers, and supporters who believe in empowering the next generation to change the world.
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Project Invent’s Accelerate program offers young inventors a pathway to bring their products to the next level. Accelerate students are matched with industry professionals who support them in developing business plans, go-to-market strategies, patent applications, and more. As the 2020-2021 school year came to a close, we reached out to student Justin Buys to share some reflections about his Accelerate experience.
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Sunday, May 17, marked our final Demo Day of 2020. We had over 100 students, teachers, and audience members join us to hear 7 high school teams pitch their inventions for social good. We heard from teams who spent the past year creating innovations for impact: things like food allergy response technologies to save their classmate from life-threatening allergic reactions or quick-deploy tents to help farmers in Central Valley protect their hay.
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On Saturday, April 25, hundreds of students, teachers, and audience members from around the world gathered on a single Zoom call to hear 9 high school teams pitch their inventions for social good. These students had spent the past year inventing for social good, creating everything from auto-lacing shoes for people with limited mobility to a smart pen to help people with dyslexia decode written words.
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Another kickoff in the books! On Saturday, October 26, we gathered at the beautiful Google offices in NYC for a day of connecting, learning from industry professionals, and ideating. We had visitors from New York, Vermont, New Jersey, and Rhode Island attend! Read for highlights from the event.
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This past Saturday, Project Invent teams from San Diego, Sacramento, and everywhere in between met at Google.org in San Francisco for a day of connecting, learning from industry professionals, and ideating. We had a total of 70 students, 5 guest speakers, and 43 parents, mentors, and volunteers.
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This past spring, the 5th grade classroom of Jason Hubbard in Perrysburg, OH embarked on a mission: to build a better community through design thinking.
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Time and time again, students and educators have shared that the most impactful part of Project Invent is talking to real users. But how do you find great community members to partner with for student invention? Here are some tips for finding community partners to ground your student’s work in real-world connections.
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This summer, Project Invent welcomed two alumni, Justin and Maddie, as interns! With their unique student perspectives, they helped design the curriculum, create community partnerships, and prepare for the Summer Institute. Maddie, our curriculum and strategy intern shares her experience.
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Ready to super charge your invention skills this summer? Try thinking about the inputs and outputs that drive everything around us and figure out how you would write it as pseudocode.
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