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Helen Zhang, Leigh Estabrooks & Tony Perry

February 2019

This paper reports an exploratory case study on broadening youth participation in invention education by supporting teachers’ efforts to bring invention education into middle school science classrooms. Invention education has been suggested to be highly promising for engaging and empowering youth in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning; sustaining their interest; and preparing them to become future inventors and innovators. Students who are diverse by race, ethnicity, and gender, however, have traditionally

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