Lemelson Foundation
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Improving lives through invention
Portland, OR
Joined December 2009
Inspiring and educating the next generation of #inventors will lead to #invention-based businesses and technologies that can solve the world’s biggest challenges and improve the quality of lives in communities everywhere.
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Teachers, mentors, and a middle-school #inventioneducation program helped Thien Nguyen reach his education and career goals. “He chose his own path despite all the odds that were against him,” says our Senior Program Officer @DCoronado100. @MesaOregon.
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Through Oregon MESA, engineer Thien Nguyen discovered his facility for numbers and a supportive community.
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.@Villgro's new documentary series “Inventing for Impact,” celebrates enterprises that are advancing impactful social innovations at scale in agriculture, healthcare, and climate action. #invention #entrepreneurship. Learn more and watch here:
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RT @EngineerGirlNAE: "'The time has come to work boldly, with urgency, together to open the doors of opportunity across these five action a….
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The White House launches a new campaign to improve equity and access to STEM education and careers.
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RT @SELCOFoundation: #ClimateXHealth Challenge with @PATHtweets! . We are seeking innovations on adaptation, mitigation, environmental gove….
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RT @SELCOFoundation: #Training on Operations & Maintenance of #SolarSystems for health staff organized in collaboration with #Directorateof….
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RT @AspenANDE: Check out ANDE's new learning brief, “Strengthening Gender and Climate-Lens Investing in Sub-Saharan Africa," to learn about….
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RT @VillgroUSA: 📢HAPPENING TOMORROW!.If your #socialimpact organization is looking for #funding opportunities, join this session tomorrow….
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RT @GirlsWhoCode: Meet the TikTokers breaking the glass ceiling in 3D printing— and inspiring other women in STEM to do the same. https://t….
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3D printing was once only seen as a technology reserved only for professionals. It was difficult and expensive to obtain a system before desktop 3D printers began proliferating at the...
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RT @InventEdNetwork: We're excited to see #InventionEducation cited as a promising and established practice for supporting #K12 #STEMEducat….
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Our pilot grant program for #EngineeringforOnePlanet captured important lessons for integrating #sustainability into #engineering courses at five universities: @ASUEngineering @EngineeringOSU @ClarkSchool @UCFCECS @NovaEngineer. Read about their takeaways:
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Join our Program Officer Maggie Flanagan at @VillgroUSA's Wednesday Wisdom Series to understand #impactinvestment trends in the upcoming year and how your organization can effectively plan funding for #socialimpact in the future. Register here:
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RT @InventEdNetwork: Thank you to all who attended this year’s #InventEd22, both returning members of the network and those new to the comm….
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.@CarolynBertozzi also won the 2010 @LemelsonMIT prize for her groundbreaking work in #chemistry and #biology. Check out our Q&A with her in #Invention Notebook:
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Chemical biologist Carolyn Bertozzi is blazing a trail in the way cancer and other diseases may be diagnosed and treated.
"Here we are 100 years later making use of these chemistries in ways that we hope will benefit human health.". In her #NobelPrize lecture @CarolynBertozzi spoke about how her work builds on curiosity-driven research, and how important that type of research can be for our futures.
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RT @Borinkito: Excited to announce the project I’ve dedicated the past 15 months too is finally live! Check it out, share it with friends a….
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RT @beyondbenign: K-12 science teachers: Join us for Observe, Wonder, Think on Dec. 15 to learn about a culturally sustaining science curri….
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RT @Society4Science: After learning more about plastic pollution and ways to reduce it, 12-year-old Madison Checketts designed Eco-Hero, a….
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After seeing plastic polluting her favorite beaches year after year, Madison Checketts decided it was time to do something about it
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RT @EngineerGirlNAE: "How can I deal with not fitting in or feeling like I'm not good enough?" See what engineers had to say about Imposter….
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RT @inventitforward: Here's a feel-good student inventor story with a holiday twist! In 2017, Aayan N. brought his invention, Ornament Anch….
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Through family encouragement, support, and hands-on invention education, brothers Mika’il and Ayaan Naqvi teamed up to navigate their way from an idea to a business.
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RT @VillgroAfrica: We’re you able to join our live stream? Don’t worry, you can still catch the replay of our pitching event here: https://….
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