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Resources for Young Inventors
If you are a young inventor, you will be interested in looking here. Join invention clubs, conduct experiments and have fun.
Young Inventor Educational Resources
Workshops and courses for student inventors, attend invention summer camps, or find out how you can enter your invention in a contest or win a scholarship. Lesson plans for teachers. 
Young Inventor Home Pages
Websites illustrating inventions made by kids.

 
 
Young Inventors Universe
Great sites and fun experiments all about inventing. Websites illustrating inventions made by kids. Workshops, courses and summer camps for kid inventors and contests kids can submit their inventions to. Lesson plans for teachers.

Young Inventors - Inventing 101
A great primer for understanding inventing written for students, geared for three different levels,  K-6, 6-12 and teachers and parents. Invention stories, learning about the patent system, understanding what a patent search is and more is included with this primer.

Activities for Young Inventors
Resources for the younger inventor - great sites about invention that will help the younger reader.

Young Inventors - Experiments
Fun experiments you can do to help learn all about inventing and science. Safety first - you won't blow off your fingers, but you will build your own rocket invention.

Kid Inventions
Websites illustrating inventions made by kids.

Invention Camps, Workshops & Contests
Workshops, courses and summer camps for kid inventors, contests kids can submit their inventions to.

 

TOTALLY ABSURD PATENTS 

This is what I call a must for all inventors young and old a like.  You have to have this site as a bookmark.  If you join their free club they will send you updates to the site etc.  Its sole purpose is to make you laugh at yourself and others ideas.  It brings the most zaniest ideas that have been attempted to get patents and allows us to see the wackiness of them.

 

More Young Inventors Help Sites

http://www.si.edu/lemelsonLemelson Center for the Study of Invention & Innovation; at Smithsonian Institute; addresses the history of inventing; center produces invention programs & events

http://www.invent.orgInventure Place & National Inventors Hall of Fame; biographical data, links to invention sites; African American inventors info; info about invention competitions & awards

http://web.mit.edu/invent MIT's Invention Dimension; highlights different American inventors; offers extensive listing of invention links, especially for children

http://www.rjriley.com/k-12Ronald J. Riley's site; offers review of invention links, books, & software for children; also addresses issues related to safety and inventive girls

http://www.girltech.comJanese Swanson' GirlTech; a mother&daughter invention & technology site; online information & activities

http://inventors.miningco.com General invention site,with links and articles about inventors, offers online newsletter

http://www.invention-center.com/books.htm Books for young inventors written by Ed Sobey

http://www.invention-center.com/ Invention Center Home Page

http://www.kidsinvent.org Kids invent toys. Toy inventing workshops

         
 SITES FOR KIDS AND THE KID IN ALL OF US

Access Excellence
A national educational program sponsored by Genentech, Inc., that puts high school biology teachers in touch with their colleagues, scientists and critical sources of new scientific information.

Amazing Kids!
"Inspiring kids to excellence" - this site has fun activities and contests for kids as well as a profile on a different "Amazing Kid" each month.

The American Experience: Technology Timeline
Timeline of important American inventions - from the lightening rod to the Hubble telescope.

Ask Dr. Universe!
A fabulous science Q&A site

AT & T MentorNet
MentorNet is an e-mail based partnering program that pairs women who are studying engineering or science at one of many participating colleges or universities with professional scientists and engineers working in industry, and helps them form e-mail based mentoring relationships.

Bedtime Stories for Kids of All Ages

Bill Nye the Science Guy

Britannica Online

Camp Invention
A summer enrichment program of Inventure Place and the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

Can You Guess the Computer?
PBS Online interactive game to test your computer knowledge/nerd quotient

Canterbury Public Library's list of inventors, inventions and when they were invented

Concoctions and Inventions

Cyberkids

Cyberspace Middle School

Dead Inventors' Corner
Discovery Channel Online's bi-weekly profiles of late great innovators.

Detroit Public Library -- African American Inventors

Discover Engineering Online
Web site to help children learn about and explore the world and profeesion of engineering.

Discovergames
Web site devoted to board game inventors

Dr. Internet's Hands-On Science

Dr. Bob's Interesting Science Stuff

The Farnsworth Chronicles
A bored 13-year-old plowing the fields of his father's farm? This hardly seems the fertile ground for the idea of television. But that's how Philo T. Farnsworth first began thinking of his revolutionary invention. This and other fascinating facts about the genius are presented here in an interesting history.

For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST)
A non-profit organization whose mission is to generate an interest in science and engineering among today's youth.

Girl Tech
Did someone mention invention?

Gander Academy's Inventors and Inventions Page
Very education-oriented Inventor and Invention page by a small Canadian elementary school near Gander, Newfoundland.

HandsOnPlastics.com
Information on plastics and cool experiments with multimedia demonstrations

Helping Your Child Learn Science
Site sponsored by the US Department of Education

 Homeworkspot.com
Homework resources for grades K-12. Great for science project ideas and help!

How Things Work: The Physics of Everyday Life

Hunt for Inventors' Parallel and African American Inventors and Scientists
Internet treasure hunt designed to make learning about inventors fun!

Inventing Unit at Mustang
Learn about inventing and what it takes to become an inventor.

InventorEd
Inspiration for young inventors, as well as tips and resources for inventors of all ages.

The Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History

The MAD Scientist Network
A collective crania of scientists from around the world, fielding questions from as many people in as many places.

Midlink Magazine
The electronic magazine for kids in the middle grades.

The Museum of Science
It's Alive!

 National Gallery for America's Young Inventors
Run by the Partnership for America's Future, Inc., the Gallery houses award-winning inventions created by the youth of America. For more information on the induction process, check out this Web site.

Patently Weird, from ABCNEWS.com

Saturday Academy
An organization that provides practical, hands-on learning experiences and gives kids a chance to investigate real-life problems with the help of accomplished professionals.

Science Friday Kids Connection

Sunwindsolar.com
Educates about solar energy and offers kits to make solar powered devices

TAP Junior
Resources for Encouraging Girls and Teens in Science/Computers/Technology

 The Tech Museum of Innovation

ThinkQuest
Programs to encourage the advancement of education through the use of technology.

The Toshiba/NSTA ExploraVision Awards
Join some friends and enter into a competition to create technology of the future. For grades K-12.

3M Collaborative Invention Unit
3M's six fascinating characteristics of the inventive persona. Plus, practical tips to help you with documenting your invention, firing up your creativity, critiquing your ideas, and creating a marketing plan.

Thurgood Marshall Academic -
A high school that is literally bursting with innovation and experimentation in the Hunters Point district of San Francisco.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Kids' Pages

Young Inventors Program and Fair

You Can with Beakman & Jax
 

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