Events

Kiva Systems’ creators Raffaello D’Andrea, Mick Mountz and Peter Wurman were recognized for their innovation by being inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF). The Class of 2022 includes 27 pioneers who were honored in Washington, D.C. on May 5-6.

Students, Stephen Kalinsky and Jared Meyers, are both recent graduates of the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering and took part in the 2021 Collegiate Inventors Competition (CIC). Entrepreneurial spirit is a focus of the BME department here at the Institute, and continues to allow tech grads to do great thing with their talents.

Florida Atlantic University’s College of Engineering and Computer Science’s Matthew Maggio is one of five undergraduate national finalists of the “2021 Collegiate Inventors Competition®,” a program of the National Inventors Hall of Fame®.

An engineer, Johnson is the inventor of the Super Soaker®, which became a best-selling toy generating well over $1 billion in sales over its lifetime.

To recognize the incredible contributions of inventors and the benefits they bring to our everyday life, the National Inventors Hall of Fame has inducted a new group of honorees every year since 1973.

Stephen Kalinsky and Jared Meyers are two undergraduates at the Atlanta university and will be competing in the 2021 Collegiate Inventors Competition.

The National Inventors Hall of Fame’s Camp Invention program has gotten pretty, well, inventive with the way it delivers content during the pandemic. And that includes offering both in-person and virtual camps, connecting not only to K-8 students, but to entire families through the Camp Invention at Home program.

The parents of a Mount Horeb boy, who unexpectedly died in 2018, are giving other children the opportunity to attend their son’s favorite summer activity, Camp Invention.

Thanks to Ruth Hill Elementary School student Isabella “Izzy” McMillan, 10 of her schoolmates will be able to participate in Camp Invention in December.