Engaging Students Through Invention Ed

A group of smiling students wearing Lemelson-MIT branded shirts are standing and sitting together on stage with a MIT banner behind them. One of the students holds up a plaque award while others have their arms raised in celebration.

May 9, 2025

One educator’s quest to re-engage students led her to Lemelson-MIT’s Invention Ed webinars. After two years, her students were creating invention prototypes, presenting at MIT, speakers on a U.S. Department of Education panel, and finalists at SXSW.

In 2022, high school science teacher Heather Brooks attended her first Lemelson-MIT (LMIT) Invention Education (IvE) webinar. She never imagined that just two years later, she would be accompanying 30 students to present their invention project at MIT, speaking on a panel at the U.S. Department of Education in Washington, D.C., or having her students’ project selected in 2025 as one of five finalists for the Student Innovation category at SXSW’s Innovation Awards in Austin, Texas.

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