Lemelson-MIT Resources for Teaching Invention
Posted on May 4th, 2017 by Mary Lord
Along with free activity guides for its signature JVInvenTeams innovation contest for students in grades 7 to 10,,the Lemelson-MIT Program is presenting three-day summer workshops this summer designed to help teachers encourage middle and high school students to think and act like inventors while developing solutions to real world problems.
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