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Company Description:

The Lemelson-MIT Program promotes invention and the early stages of entrepreneurship across the United States through its prize program for collegiate inventors and its invention education initiatives. Our mission is to inspire young people to pursue creative lives and careers through invention, and to support their development as inventors and creative problem solvers through invention education opportunities. Invention education is an emerging and transdisciplinary approach to education with meaningful outcomes for students of all backgrounds, educators and communities. We are leading research efforts in this new field of study with a goal of forging collaborations and invention education pathways from kindergarten through college to ensure all youth have opportunities to learn to think and work as inventors.