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PAST EVENTS
03.09-03.12.22 ITEEA Conference
Visit Project Invent at ITEEA’s STEM Showcase on March 10, 2022! Hear from Project Invent Fellow, Lex Schoenberg, about strategies for creating room for exploration in the classroom.
03.29-03.31.22 Deeper Learning Conference
Project Invent Program Managers, Jillian Harmon and Jerome Link, are thrilled to be workshop presenters at Deeper Learning 2022! Join us in San Diego to explore the power of exploration and curiosity in project-based learning.
04.12-04.15.22 NBEA Convention
Lauren Babitz, current Project Invent Fellow and former business educator, will be representing invention education at NBEA’s 2022 Convention! Join Lauren in Chicago this Spring to learn how invention and design thinking can be integrated into a business classroom.
7.18-7.23.21 Infosys Pathfinders (virtual)
In partnership with the Infosys Foundation, we are hosting a week of professional development in making and coding for social good, virtually! Attendees receive a free at-home prototyping kit including an Arduino or micro:bit. K-12 teachers from all disciplines are welcome and 100% of the costs are covered for public school teachers. Please visit the Infosys website to learn more.
5.6.21 Lunch & Learn: Become a Cardboard Engineer!
We will examine various ways for students to make higher fidelity cardboard prototypes. This quick workshop will include folding and joining techniques, how to safely use cutting tools, and design challenge examples to get your kids to create amazing products. If time allows we will briefly introduce how to connect servos and sensors taking our simple prototypes to a whole new level.
Three attendees will be randomly selected to win Amazon gift cards!
4.27.21 Lunch & Learn: MURAL for Project Based Learning
Digital whiteboards offer value even if you are back teaching in-person. Learn different ways MURAL can facilitate design thinking, PBL, or even one-off projects. We will cover the basics of MURAL, offer some advanced techniques, and walk you through some Project Invent design thinking templates. Great for upper elementary-high school educators.
4.13.21 Lunch & Learn: Virtual Design in Onshape
Join us during lunch to learn how to introduce 3D Design and modeling to your students. Our founder, Connie, will be using a program called Onshape to show you how you can get your students turning their ideas into reality in no time.
3.31.21 Lunch & Learn: Virtual Design in TinkerCAD
Join us during lunch to learn how to introduce 3D Design and modeling to your students. Our Program Manager, Jillian, will be using a program called TinkerCAD to show you how you can get your students turning their ideas into reality in no time.
3.9.21 Making & Coding Virtually with Micro:bit Workshop
Learn the basics of teaching students to build inventions with Micro:bit on the virtual platform: TinkerCAD. Experience with Micro:bit is not required, beginners welcome!
5 attendees will receive a FREE Micro:bit!
2.24.21 Fireside Chat: “The Future of the Maker Movement” with Dale Dougherty
In this exciting and candid fireside chat, Dale Dougherty, Founder of MAKE Magazine and creator of the world's largest DIY festival, Maker Faire, discusses the future of the Maker Movement. This fireside chat was moderated by Project Invent founder, Connie Liu.
Tune in to learn more about the maker movement’s future and how educators (across multiple settings like schools, after school settings, libraries, and museums) can keep students making and creating, particularly in a virtual world.
2.3.21 Making & Coding Virtually with Arduino Workshop
Learn the basics of teaching students to build inventions with Arduino on the virtual platform: TinkerCAD. Experience with Arduino is not required, beginners welcome!
10 attendees will receive a FREE Arduino kit!
11.12.20 How to Find Community Partners (virtual)
Find out how to create a recruitment plan to get real community partners connecting with your students as they solve unique challenges. Map out your community to identify challenge areas ripe for student problem-solving opportunities and leave with an action plan to connect with those problems and people.
10.22.20 Learning Made Real Through Virtual Community Partnerships (virtual)
Learn how to engage community partners in student projects by hearing from a special guest, Jimmy, who has been a community partner for students over the last 3 years. Jimmy shares his story of becoming blind and how he works with students to help build empathy and problem-solving skills.
7.30.20 Emerging Tech Webinar for Teens (virtual)
This summer by-teens, for-teens webinar featured workshops in everything from robotics to AI to blockchain.
7.19-7.24.20 Infosys Pathfinders (virtual)
We hosted a week of professional development in making and coding for social good, virtually! Attendees received a free at-home Arduino and prototyping kit and ended the week ready to bring Project Invent to their own classroom.
5.17.20 May Demo Day (VIRTUAL)
Join us on Zoom to see the final 10 of our 20 student teams presenting their technologies for social impact to a panel of investors and tech executives.
4.25.20 April Demo Day (VIRTUAL)
Watch the event livestream to witness the first 10 of our 20 student teams presenting their technologies for social impact to a panel of investors and tech executives. Be inspired by a keynote by Hannah Chung, and see which teams were awarded funding from our pool of $4000.
2.17-2.20.20 Infosys Pathfinders
We spent three days in Providence training a group of teachers from across the country in making and coding for social good. Tuition, airfare, and food were all generously covered by Infosys and we’re excited to have empowered such an incredible group of educators.
10.26.19 New York City Kickoff
Students and teachers from across the Northeast joined us for our NYC kickoff hosted at the Google offices. After hearing from top designers and engineers, students enjoyed lunch and a design thinking exercise to kick off their innovation for social good for the year. Read more about the experience here.
10.12.19 San Francisco Kickoff
Eighty students from all over the California coast joined us for our San Francisco kickoff hosted at the Google.org Community Space. Designers and engineers from Google, IDEO, Apple, and more shared about how they applied human-centered design to their work everyday, and then students embarked on their own design journeys. Read more about the experience here.
7.14-7.19.19 Infosys Pathfinders
Join 600 other educators at Indiana University Bloomington this summer for a mega professional development opportunity to learn making and coding for social good. Tuition, airfare, and food are all covered by the generosity of Infosys and Donors Choose.
5.18.19 Demo Day
Join us at Stanford University this May to see our teams from across the country present their innovations for social good. From an adaptive mouse and keyboard for people with cerebral palsy to a hugging hoodie for people with autism, students are designing a better world and will be sharing their impact with the top VCs in the nation.
Check out our livestream (video).
2.9.19 Patent Workshop @ USPTO
Project Invent high school students from across the Bay Area attended a workshop on the patent process hosted by the Silicon Valley US Patent & Trademark Office. They were inspired to apply for patents for their impactful inventions: two teams are now in the middle of the provisional patenting process!
10.20.18 Kickoff @ IDEO
We were so excited to host our Bay Area kickoff at IDEO in Palo Alto with founding partner, Dennis Boyle. Students got to see innovation in action in the home of design thinking.
8.10-8.13.18 Project Invent Summer Institute.
August 2018, we ran our first teacher training for educators excited about bringing impactful making and real-world problem solving into their classrooms (and museums!). Working on solving problems for real people can be a messy process, so we broke it down into tools and strategies to help students achieve incredible and impactful results.
5.20.18 Maker Faire.
On Sunday, May 20, we presented our work at one of the largest Maker Faires in the world. Our students shared about their social ventures and impactful inventions to the greater maker audience.
5.17.18 Demo Day.
On May 17, our students will be presenting their impactful inventions at the Stanford d.school to top tech investors and entrepreneurs for a chance at up to $2000 in funding. Students have tackled everything from blindness to homelessness with their human-centered approach to designing a better world. Come see what these high school students have invented and be inspired by how our young people are changing the world.