Invention education is a proven way to teach disciplined inventive thinking in the classroom. Inventive thinking is necessary to build an innovative, entrepreneurial and diverse workforce to meet every country’s future needs! Through invention education, we put science, engineering design, robotics, coding, making, and other skills into action.

Invention education is a pedagogical approach to learning, where educators help students define a real problem affecting others, design a solution, build a prototype, and respond to user feedback. This way of learning often engages young women and minorities, who do not traditionally identify with STEM subjects. Resultantly, students who have struggled with traditional academics, usually excel and their interests are ignited, they eagerly collaborate with peers to create meaningful products to benefit their communities.
Invention education cultivates active learning through design-based invention and entrepreneurship thinking. Through student, faculty, and community engagement, invention education bridges the gap between university learning and practical skills in developing innovative engineers. Students and educators alike share learn new things, build critical thinking skills, contribute, and thrive.


The pillars on which we build
What if…
Every student learnt to think like an inventor?
Every student has a unique ability and creativity that can only be brought out through inventive thinking. Nurturing the abilities of every student is our greatest commitment.


Educators had a powerful way to inspire learners to engage in their own learning?
Invention education incorporates so many tenets—we’ve got problem solving, problem seeking, empathy, iterating. Researchers have identified the fact that educators need knowledge and experience in guiding students in open-ended, problem-based inquiry, scaffolding instruction, and integrating student backgrounds to make such inquiry possible, particularly for diverse learners.

Successful educators using the invention approach to learning recognize and adapt their teaching styles in order to provide students with engaging activities that result in demonstrating competencies, acquiring skills, and developing mindsets attributed to successful innovators.

Young people were prepared to meet demands of jobs that don’t yet exist?
Our next generation of citizens will need strong academic skills along with curiosity, imagination, empathy, entrepreneurship, confidence, and determination. Effective education systems will need to go beyond traditional teaching techniques to help a diversity of learners succeed in work, school, and community.

Invention education approach helps those who are historically underrepresented in technology. It helps to build a more diverse talent pool, ready to help solve community and global issues. Education and workforce systems can begin to address inequities in education and wealth while engendering a culture of collaborative problem-solving and community engagement.