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
 

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.
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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

United Inventors Association
UIA is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit, founded in 1990. Information and educational materials are free and open to the public. Additional in-depth materials and services are available to members on the members-only sections of this site. UIA members include: national and international inventor groups, individual inventors, entrepreneurs, academia, commercial enterprises, service providers and non-profit companies. BKFK is proud to be associated with United Inventors Association in connection with the implementation of invention competitions and educational initiatives for children.
www.uiausa.com