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August 01, 2005

How Are You Celebrating National Inventors' Month?

August is here already, so it's time to celebrate National Inventors' Month. It's time for a month-long celebration of invention. While most of the activities seem to be geared toward kids, you're never too old to invent.

From National Inventors' Month, by Erik J. Heels,

August is National Inventors' Month ®, a program created in 1995 by the United Inventors Association of the USA (UIA-USA) (http://www.uiausa.org/), the Academy of Applied Science (http://www.aas-world.org/), and Inventors' Digest (http://www.inventorsdigest.com/) in order to teach kids about inventing and to help those who have ideas for new products understand the process of new product development and find ethical, honest companies and people with whom to deal.

Here are some suggested ideas for celebrating:

• Go to invent.org and poke around. You may find inspiration or resources to help you patent that great idea. You can also find out the answer to the question "Which inventor has kept a mouse living for over 73 years?"
• Check out the United Inventors Association website.
• Browse through the Youth Programs at the Academy of Applied Science. In particular, the Young Inventors' Program may inspire you to encourage innovation in your community.
• See what Focus on the Family has to say about invention as a family activity.
• Check out Crayola's Coloring & Activities, Craft Ideas, Cards, or Lesson Plans geared toward National Inventors' Month.
• Spend some time at the Great Idea Finder, where you can look at invention facts and myths, inventor profiles, an innovation time line, or invention trivia questions.

If anyone knows of any other fun ideas to celebrate invention, please share by commenting.

Posted by Melody Wirz at 02:10 PM.
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