Western New York Kids Invent Home Page

Tomorrow’s success lies in the hands of our creative youth.

Join us.

Ensure an innovative future.

WHO ARE WE?

The Western New York Invention Convention is part of a larger, state-wide program originally started in Buffalo more than 20 years ago. The goal of the Invention Convention is to promote creative thinking and encourage scientific problem solving in K-8^th grade students. Public, Private and Charter School students are all invited to develop solutions to problems they encounter in their daily lives, and to submit their final inventions to our organization through their school representatives.

HOW DO KIDS BENEFIT?

The rewards of such a process are multilevel: the emotional satisfaction of creatively solving a problem, the benefit of parents and students working together, and the development of problem solving skills that may encourage further interest in math and science related careers.

WHEN DOES THIS TAKE PLACE?

This year’s Regional event takes place at the Buffalo Museum of Science March 28^th, 2009. Twenty five students will be selected to represent our region at the NY State Invention Convention taking place in Binghamton, NY on June 13^th. From this pool of Western New York talent, the Niagara Frontier Intellectual Property Law Association (NFIPLA) will select a Young Inventor of the Year, to be recognized with the other finalists at the annual NFIPLA Inventor of the Year Awards Dinner.

HOW CAN YOU PARTICIPATE?

Please contact us directly or go to our website to obtain program details and registration forms for your school, your kids, and their families. Join our creative community & help us ensure an innovative & successful future for our youth. It has been said that creativity is the basis for most advances in contemporary life and is proclaimed to be America’s last remaining competitive advantage. Who better to focus on developing the potential of that resource than our own creative community?