Innovation Forward: HBCU Invention & Startup Showcase

The American Association for the Advancement of Science, with support from the National Science Foundation, will provide two days of interactive workshops for students, faculty, administrators, inventors, entrepreneurs, startup founders and K-12 students and teachers. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn about invention, innovation, technology transfer and entrepreneurship

Register now at: hbcuinnovation.com

 
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Tour stops

Throughout the 2019 - 2020 academic year we will organize three regional workshops in the following locations:

  • Morehouse College (Atlanta University Center) - September 27-28, 2019.

  • North Carolina A&T University (Greensboro/Piedmond Triad) - October 4-5, 2019.

  • Morgan State University (Mid-Atlantic) - Spring 2020

Innovation Forward will feature the following programming “Tracks”:

”Startups”: HBCU students with a business or business idea or interest in learning about invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship

”Innovators”: HBCU students with tech inventions/innovations to build or transfer

”Educators”: HBCU or K-12 educators who want to learn about innovation education

”K-12”: K-12 students who want to learn about business and innovation:

Featured topics:

  • Being an Innovator on an HBCU Campus

  • Innovator Basics: A Masterplan to Business Success

  • Creating and Protecting Intellectual Property

  • Innovation Forward: Local Resources

  • Business Branding in the Age of Digital Innovation

  • Technology Transfer 101 for HBCU Innovators

  • Innovation Funding

  • Role of Higher Education in Supporting Invention at HBCU’s

  • K-12 Invention Curriculum Development

Register now at: hbcuinnovation.com


Innovation Forward: HBCU Invention and Startup Road Shows