Sessions and workshops that energize and bring excitement to the classroom
Lemelson-MIT is excited to offer three opportunities for professional development in summer, 2025. There will be one PD session for Administrators in Cambridge, MA, and two options to attend PD for Educators: Tustin, CA, and Cambridge, MA. See below for more details.
Our evidence-based model, backed by published research and case studies gives you the tools to evolve your teaching and facilitation of K-14 student learning. You’ll hear from expert speakers, educators, and colleagues about activities and techniques that help diverse student populations develop confidence in their ability to engage in STEM. You will participate in small group workshops to develop skills tailored to your interests.
Register by March 4: $550; after March 4: $695
Administrator Session: Cambridge, MA
Educator Session Option 1: Tustin, California
As an educator, you will experience invention education first hand through hands-on activities tailored to particular grade bands. From participating in the Invention Sprint to hearing from educators who have successfully implemented invention education into their classrooms, you will leave energized, excited, and with the tools needed to implement invention education in your classrooms.
Educator Session Option 2: Cambridge, MA
As an educator, you will experience invention education first hand through hands-on activities tailored to particular grade bands. From participating in the Invention Sprint to hearing from educators who have successfully implemented invention education into their classrooms, you will leave energized, excited, and with the tools needed to implement invention education in your classrooms.
Who Should Attend?
Administrators
Superintendents
Educators at all levels
Community College Administrators and Faculty
After-school Professionals
Library Professionals
Museum Professionals
We encourage participation by teams consisting of both administrators and educators committed to creating pathways to invention for students.
Invention is transdisciplinary, so educators from all disciplines are invited to attend.
What Will You Gain?
Administrators and educators with varying levels of experience (new to invention education, experienced, and community college level) will develop the capacity to help students learn to think and act as inventors. There will be large group sessions for all, and smaller sessions broken out by IvE theme or grade span.
Participants will gain:
- Approaches to engaging students from diverse backgrounds in STEM learning
- Ways to develop students' capacities to think and act as inventors
- Hands-on activities that will help students become creative problem solvers
- Best practices for strengthening STEM, entrepreneurship, and enrichment programming
Participants will receive a certificate for attending that includes 15 participation hours.
The Lemelson-MIT Program is an approved professional development provider by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
Get Your Students on the Pathway to Invention
It's never too early, or too late, to start!
At the PD Workshop, you'll see first hand how invention education helps K-14 administrators and educators address the federal STEM education strategic plan by offering programs that will:
- Excite and inspire students and educators
- Engage students where disciplines converge
- Build computational literacy
- Support students' engagement in their local communities.
- Empower educators with tools and strategies
