Check out some great links

Hands-on Museums

• ASTC Guide to Hands-On Musuems in America
  You can attend these museums as a Member of the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Click here to find out about becoming a Member of the National Inventors Hall of Fame Museum.
• The Edgerton Educational Center
• A database of Hands-on Museums worldwide
• HyperTech from the Tech Museum of Innovation
  
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  Sites about Invention

• All about do it yourself patents
• The US Patent and Trademark Office
• Intellectual Property Owners
  An association serving owners of patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets.
• Invention and Innovation at MIT - Stories about some inventors.
• Inventors Digest Magazine
• Inventors.about.com
• National Inventor Fraud Center
• Patent Cafe - "Gateway to Invention Resources"
• TechExchange - TechExchange Online's technology databases and intellectual property resources provide searchable patent licensing opportunities, patent attorneys, technology transfers, venture capital funding, technical evaluations and tech exchanges.
• Inventors Museum - A virtual museum to inventors.
  

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  Invention Competitions and Awards

• Talent Search - Intel
• Intel Science & Engineering Fair
• NSTA's Listing of Invention and Science Competitions
• National Gallery for America's Young Inventors
• The Freida J. Riley Teacher Award
• US First
• Invent America
• Craftsman/NSTA Young Inventors Awards Program
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  Programs for College Inventors:
• The Collegiate Inventors Competition - A Program of the National Inventors Hall of Fame
• National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance
  

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  Kids Stuff Sites

• The Patent and Trademark Office's Kids' Pages
• Patent Cafe's Kid Inventor Links

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