Unlock Your Students' Potential With Our STEM Education Programs
Our inventor-inspired curriculum is designed to:
- Provide early exposure to innovation, increasing the chances that children will be innovative in the future
- Encourage entrepreneurship by empowering students to both invent and bring their creations to market
- Lead children through the invention process and build Intellectual Property knowledge
- Build an understanding that failure is a necessary point on the path to success
- Ignite creativity and collaboration through a new, cutting-edge curriculum each year
- Close the gap and reduce disparity in STEM fields by providing equal access to all children
- Offer opportunities to solve real-world problems
- Guide students to apply the STEM concepts you teach
- Provide teachers with new ways to incorporate STEM skills into the classroom
- Develop skills that lead children to apply creative problem solving to their everyday lives
- Boost student confidence
- Cultivate a passion for innovation
- Introduce children to inventors they can relate to and look up to as career role models
- Improve student engagement and performance
- Deliver immersive, hands-on activities
- Be turnkey and flexible
See what others are saying!
We offer the most effective STEM learning opportunities
Select the right program to accomplish your goals
Invention Playground
Preschool
Encourage preschoolers to discover their inner innovators by getting them involved in open-ended activities rooted in creativity and play.
Camp Invention
K–6th grade
Immersive, hands-on STEM challenges build confidence and creativity in elementary students, while offering leadership opportunities for older students (7th-9th grade Leaders-in-Training, and high school and college Leadership Interns).
Club Invention
1st–6th grade
With a National Inventors Hall of Fame® Inductee-inspired curriculum, students build 21st century skills through extracurricular activity while learning the value of teamwork.
STEM Maker Lab
1st–6th grade
This robust, flexible curriculum enhances the makerspace experience, empowering students to solve realistic challenges, design prototypes and use the latest tech tools.
Invention Project
6th–9th grade
Empower the next generation of entrepreneurs with a curriculum that focuses on turning ideas into inventions and bringing inventions to market.
Professional Development
Educators
Though our Professional Development program, we demonstrate how to simply and comfortably integrate STEM into your classroom.
All partner program team members receive a letter of recognition from the United States Patent and Trademark Office and a certificate representing up to 3 CEUs. Acceptance of CEUs is subject to your state or district continuing education requirements.
Each of our programs qualifies for the following funding:
- Title I
- Title II
- Title III
- Title IV
- 21st CCLC
- Migrant Education
- Early Learning Challenge
- State and local district resources
Testimonials
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“The National Inventors Hall of Fame program exceedingly met the areas of creativity, collaboration, communication and critical thinking. The students were excited about coming to school, unheard of for summer school, and want this program next year.”
Sam GenisPrincipal, Durfee Elementary School
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“The [students] are completely engaged from the minute they get there until the minute they leave. It really is a great week.”
Cindy TarelloTeacher
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“The students LOVED Club Invention! As their STEM teacher I could see them applying the skills and content learned through the club in their regular STEM time. As for the program, I was pleased with how easy it was to instruct the program.”
Maureen PlunkettSTEM Teacher
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“I have had 14 students attend the program. It has been absolutely amazing! I can't say enough good things about Club Invention. This is the way education should be in the classroom, every day! I'm so pleased to have been a part of it. Thank you!”
Denise HallinanGregory Elementary School
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“These kids are so filled with enthusiasm and excitement because they are experiencing and seeing things for the first time.”
Monica JarvisTeacher
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“The activities and the skills that they learn at Camp Invention really transfer to the outside world. They’re encouraged to come up with ideas, brainstorm, hypothesize and make mistakes — it’s all part of the learning process!”
Tania GonzalezDirector, Commons Elementary School
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“Kids learn by experiencing things, not by studying things and repeating what they study. Providing an environment where children can learn the material, how it comes together, and how it works, in a climate of play, that’s an unbelievable thing.”
Federico FagginInductee, Co-inventor of the Microprocessor
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