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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...

This article in the Sacramento State Newsletter espouses the value of invention education. 

Calistoga Junior/Senior High School selected  as finalist for 2025 SXSW Innovation Award!

Read about LMIT's Cambridge engagement in the MIT Office of Government and Community Relations' MIT in Cambridge Impact Report.

Three Latino Student Inventors Celebrated by U.S. Secretary of Education and White House Initiative for Hispanics in Honor of Hispanic Heritage Month

Former InvenTeam member, Katie Avila Pinedo's invention journey is featured in an article by the USPTO!

Lemelson-MIT is proud to announce that their award-winning documentary, Pathways to Invention, is now streaming on the PBS app! Click for more details!

Inspired by father's Parkinson disease, Arlington senior invents mobility aid

As appeared in WickedLocal.com, May 4, 2022

Juan Rafael Lenger-Caballero, 17, first met LMIT...

Look for our new IvE stamp of approval!

MIT professors Michael Cima and Fiona Murray describe the meaningful – often lifesaving – impact of invention in this Op-Ed in CommonWealth Magazine.

2018 Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam educator Phil Arnold from Frederick County Career and Technology Center in Maryland was named The Washington Post's 2021 Teacher of the Year.

This article from the RAND Review discusses a report of the 26 Lemelson-MIT Prize winners and their impacts, written by the RAND Corporation. 

Kayla Nguyen is a recipient of the L'Oréal USA 2020 For Women in Science (FWIS) Fellowship.

October 16, 2020 marks #WorldFoodDay! To celebrate, we are highlighting four Lemelson-MIT student inventors whose food and agricultural-related inventions make them true...

LMIT reflects on the systemic racism and violence that the Black community has long endured.