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Alliances
& Partners
The National Education Association (NEA)
The National Education Association is the nation's largest
professional employee organization, representing 2.8 million
elementary and secondary teachers, higher education faculty,
education support professionals, school administrators, retired
educators and students preparing to become teachers.
www.nea.org
The Partnership for America’s Future
(PAF)
The Partnership for America’s Future, Inc. is a non-profit
educational organization developed and run by award-winning, nationally
recognized teachers, in conjunction with successful business people.
It involves all grade levels, all types of students, and all subject
areas. The Partnership administers many national programs including
the National Gallery for America’s Young Inventors. The ultimate
goal of the Partnership is to involve students everywhere in the
innovative and creative process, which will better prepare them
for a new global economy and provide them with the confidence and
success that will keep America strong. The Partnership for America’s
Future will promote the BKFK competitions as part of their outreach
to kids and schools as an incentive to improve student participation.
www.pafinc.com
The National Gallery for America’s Young
Inventors
The National Gallery for America’s Young Inventors has the
authority to archive and preserve the inventions of America’s
young inventors from grades kindergarten through twelve. The parent
organization, Partnership for America’s Future, Inc., a non-profit,
educational organization, administers national programs and competitions
seeking to celebrate the learning, insight, creativity and workmanship
of America’s student inventors. This is the country’s
premier forum for invention. The National Gallery for America’s Young Inventors has agreed
to work with BKFK to mutually promote invention for children. They
have developed a method of incorporating curriculum of invention,
led by their Executive Director and Gifted Teacher, Nick Frankovits.
This method provides teachers a "how to" approach using
their existing curriculum towards creative thinking and invention
to both students and teachers. This program has proven highly effective;
yet it has only been implemented in a limited number of schools.
www.Pafinc.com/gallery
PatentCafé®
PatentCafé is the world’s largest Internet portal for
intellectual property information, products, services and data resources
relating to patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets. The
company's global patent database is the largest searchable multi-lingual
patent repository containing more than 20 million patents.
One of the most recognized IP brands, PatentCafe services over 1/2
million inventors, patent attorneys, corporate counsel, intellectual
property managers, and members from academia and government agencies
worldwide. PatentCafe's commercial Internet properties provide valuable IP
data for technology development, litigation support, patent valuation,
licensing and IP management for Fortune 100 companies, as well as
patent and corporate attorneys, engineers, inventors, authors and
entertainers, IP managers and entrepreneurs, educators, technology
licensing professionals, and intellectual property experts. PatentCafe has developed and supported kids invention competition
programs since its founding.
www.IAMcafe.com | www.PatentCafe.com
The Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation
The Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation is an independent
Federal government agency established to "encourage and support
research, study and labor designed to produce new discoveries in
all fields of endeavor for the benefit of mankind." Governed
by a Presidential appointed Board of Trustees, the Foundation seeks
to nurture and recognize pioneering individuals and programs which
reflect the visionary spirit and pioneering heritage of Christopher
Columbus through the sponsorship of competitions. The Foundation
sponsors the Frank Annunzio Award, Homeland Security Awards, Christopher
Columbus Awards, National Gallery for America's Young Inventors
and the Freida J. Riley Teacher Award.
www.columbusfdn.org
Kids Invent™
Kids Invent!™ develops and distributes curriculum for one
week summer camps, after school programs, and classroom learning
that foster creative thinking, inventing and entrepreneurial enterprise
among elementary and middle school children. Professors Ed Sobey
and Timothy M. Stearns of the Lyles Center created the curriculum
and design of the programs for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at
California State University, Fresno. They currently reach thousands
of kids across the United States with their programs.
www.kidsinvent.com
National Inventor Fraud Center
The National Inventor Fraud Center, Inc. (NIFC) was founded with
the goal to provide information to consumers about invention promotion
companies and how people can market their ideas. Many inventors
do not realize that some invention marketing companies charge thousands
of dollars, yet have success rates of 0.00. The goal of the NIFC
is to educate and help inventors make the right decisions.
www.inventorfraud.com
Le
Tourneau University
LeTourneau University in Longview, Texas, is named for its founder,
the renowned inventor Robert Gilmore LeTourneau who had over 300
patents and, at the time of his death in 1969, was one of the top
20 most prolific inventors worldwide. Inspired by faith and a spirit
of ingenuity, LeTourneau University integrates learning, living
and Christian leadership in a community of integrity, academic quality
and technological innovation. LeTourneau holds an annual Invention
& Design Contest for inventors from second grade through Adults
that began in 1986.
www.letu.edu
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