Published in The Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, the article focuses on an InvenTeam from Salem, OR.

Written by Cristina Saenz and Audra Skukauskaitė out of College of Community Innovation and Education, University of Central Florida, the paper focuses specifically on engaging Latina students in the innovation ecosystem while emphasizing the importance of including the varied perspectives and diverse skill sets of all students. 

A presentation and analysis of evidence of student inventors from colleges and universities across the United States who applied to a prestigious national prize. 

Abstract We use administrative records on the population of individuals who applied for or were granted a patent between 1996 and 2014 to characterize the lives of more than 1.2 million inventors in the United States. We show that children of low-income parents are much less likely to become inventors than their higher-income counterparts (as are minorities and women). Decompositions using third grade and older test scores indicate that this income-innovation gap can largely be accounted for by differences in human capital acquisition while children are growing up.