👩🏾🏭🧑🏼🔬🧑🏽🚀 Happy National Kid Inventors' Day! 👨🏾💻👩🏻🔧👩🏿⚕️ Celebrated each year on January 17, National Kid Inventor Day is a day for us to celebrate young students who are applying STEM principles and critical thinking skills to solve real-world problems that they witness in their lives or the lives of people in their community. We are incredibly proud of our students, who are working hard to become our world's next generation of innovators starting today! We can't wait to see all that you come up with this coming year!
Connecticut Invention Convention (CIC)
教育管理组织
HARTFORD，CT 788 位关注者
Every child should be an inventor once, better twice.
关于我们
The Connecticut Invention Convention (CIC) is an award winning, internationally recognized, 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational program designed to develop and enhance critical thinking skills in children in grades K-12 through invention, innovation and entrepreneurship, while encouraging their interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The CIC is the nation’s oldest continuously operating children’s invention education program. Since the 1983-1984 school year, an estimated 300,000 Connecticut students have experienced local CIC invention programs. Annually, more than 17,000 students in grades K-12, from over 275 Connecticut schools, take part in the CIC learning curriculum. Annually, more than 17,000 students in grades K-12, from over 275 Connecticut schools, take part in the CIC learning curriculum and up to 2,400 of them advance to compete in Regional, State, National, and Global Invention Conventions annually. The CIC is funded by sponsorships, grants, and in-kind support from corporations, foundations, and individuals, and academic institutions. Since 2008, the CIC has been on an aggressive expansion plan, growing school participation by more than 200%, expanding its partnership with the University of Connecticut School of Engineering, and adding many new corporate supporters. Want to support the Connecticut Invention Convention? Donate here: https://charity.gofundme.com/donate/charity/ctinventionconvention.
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http://www.ctinventionconvention.org
Connecticut Invention Convention (CIC)的外部链接
- 所属行业
- 教育管理组织
- 规模
- 11-50 人
- 总部
- HARTFORD，CT
- 类型
- 非营利机构
- 创立
- 1983
- 领域
- Invention education、Creative Problem Solving、Critical Thinking Skills、Competition、Invention、Entrepreneurship、Innovation和STEM
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Connecticut Invention Convention (CIC)员工
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Danny Briere
Inventor, entrepreneur, investor, author, non-profit executive
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Amy Yury Stickler
AI & Cloud Strategic Missions and Partnerships | Angel Investor | Board Member
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Kerry Macfarland
STEM Education Specialist
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Christopher J. Kuselias
Entrepreneur/INC500 Winner/Author/Strategist/Philanthropist/Movie Producer
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The Connecticut Invention Convention team wishes you and your loved ones a joyful and bright holiday season! ❄️ ☃️ We are grateful for each of you and appreciate all you do to make CIC's programs a special part of our young innovators’ lives. We have BIG PLANS for the year ahead, and can't wait for another year of STEAM, innovation, invention, problem-solving, and entrepreneurship with all of you! ✨
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Last week Connecticut Invention Convention team (including Kerry Macfarland, Nichole Pitruzzello, and Christine Lawlor-King) hosted an amazing professional development session at the Trinity College-Hartford Innovation Hub! We were joined by educators from all over the state, including returning CIC educators and educators new to the world of innovation education! During the session, we utilized one of the USPTO trading card lesson plans. These lesson plans use real-world patent holders featured on the USPTO's inventor trading cards to inspire a lesson on inventing and innovation. For our PD, we used Dr. Rory Cooper, an engineer who uses his experience living with a disability to invent assistive technologies for other disabled folks. The USPTO's Dr. Rory Cooper lesson plan challenges people to invent an assistive device to help people with disabilities to use an eating utensil. Check out the photos to see the educators testing their devices! The educators walked away with activities to introduce their students to invention and innovation, knowledge about the CIC program year ahead, and USPTO trading cards to inspire their students with real-world inventors! Thank you to all the educators who joined us and thank you to the Trinity College-Hartford Innovation Hub for hosting us!
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The Connecticut & Massachusetts Invention Convention's Nick Briere and Doron Feller, recently served as panelists on the "STEM Innovators: Early Entrepreneurship Education Shaping the Future" virtual panel hosted by The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Government-University-Industry-Philanthropy Research Roundtable (GUIPRR)! Nick and Doron were joined by fellow panelist Jorge Valdes, of the USPTO. During the webinar, the panelists highlighted the value of equipping K-12 students with entrepreneurial skills and emphasize how entrepreneurship education strengthens communities and the broader STEM enterprise. Thank you to GUIPRR for providing our team with this wonderful opportunity to share what we've learned about bringing entrepreneurship education to K-12 students!
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🚀 Calling all Connecticut K-12 educators! Are you looking for engaging, hands-on multi-disciplinary STEAM programming for your students? The Connecticut Invention Convention is for YOU! Learn more and register here: tinyurl.com/Register-CIC Registration is now open to enroll your classroom or school (including public school, private school, charter school, or magnet school, etc.) in the 2024-2025 CIC program/competition year. By registering your school-based program, you receive curriculum and resources to integrate invention education into your classroom and the opportunity to send students to the CIC statewide events. Learn more and register by December 31st: tinyurl.com/Register-CIC
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As we start up our 2024-2025 program year, we continue to celebrate the students who won at the Connecticut Invention Convention State Finals 2024! Today, we celebrate the student who won the MPH Patent Award! This award was presented by CIC partner The McCormick, Paulding, and Huber Law Firm! 👏🏾👏🏽👏🏻👏🏿 Join us in cheering on Sophia M., who invented A Piece of Cake! Thank you MP&H and congratulations to Sophia! 🎉
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As we start up our 2024-2025 program year, we continue to celebrate the students who won at the Connecticut Invention Convention State Finals 2024! Today, we celebrate the student who won the Cantor Colburn Award! This award was presented by CIC partner Cantor Colburn LLP! 👏🏾👏🏽👏🏻👏🏿 Join us in cheering on Akshar S., who invented Electronic Pill Reminder Necklace (EPRN)! Thank you Cantor Colburn and congratulations to Akshar! 🎉
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As we start up our 2024-2025 program year, we continue to celebrate the students who won at the Connecticut Invention Convention State Finals 2024! Today, we celebrate the student who won the Emerson Green Innovations Award! This award was presented by CIC partner Emerson! 👏🏾👏🏽👏🏻👏🏿 Join us in cheering on Elli B., who invented The Lazy Gardener! Thank you Emerson and congratulations to Elli! 🎉
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As we start up our 2024-2025 program year, we continue to celebrate the students who won at the Connecticut Invention Convention State Finals 2024! Today, we celebrate the student who won the Amazon Innovation Award! This award was presented by CIC partner Amazon! 👏🏾👏🏽👏🏻👏🏿 Join us in cheering on Joey M., who invented The Privacy Towel! Thank you Amazon and congratulations to Joey! 🎉
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As we start up our 2024-2025 program year, we continue to celebrate the students who won at the Connecticut Invention Convention State Finals 2024! Today, we celebrate the student who won the VELA Everyday Innovator Award! This award was presented by CIC partner, the VELA Education Fund! 👏🏾👏🏽👏🏻👏🏿 Join us in cheering on Dash B., who invented The TickKill Glove! Thank you to the VELA Education Fund and congratulations to Dash! 🎉
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