NewsHour Classroom offers dozens of lesson plans on invention and the invention process, including the four popular lessons below. These lessons challenge students to identify problems in their own ...

A historian reveals some of the most famous mishaps and why they failed.

VANCOUVER, Wash. – On the first day of the biggest annual convention for their industry, Shane Chen’s wife began to cry. Hoverboards, a rideable toy patented by Chen before they shot to popularity in ...

The story of Monopoly® provides inspiration to inventors who at first are told no, and for companies who acquire intellectual property rights. Charles Darrow, an unemployed salesman, was struggling to ...

“At the USPTO public hearings on the SUCCESS Act, we told the truth, detailing the emotional and financial pain that accompanies having one’s intellectual property invalidated. But our comments were ...

Source: Innisfree987/Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) Dr. Katalin Karikó, one of the inventors of the messenger RNA COVID-19 vaccine, was ...

Invention Convention Worldwide (ICW) works to encourage K-12 students to explore science, technology, engineering, math + innovation + entrepreneurship and “invent their own future” through hands-on ...