Camp Invention
A program of Invent Now, Camp Invention is a week-long summer enrichment program for children entering grades one through six. The camp promotes teamwork, creative problem solving, and inventive thinking while enhancing an understanding of science, math, history, and the arts. The Camp Invention curriculum aligns with national and state education standards. In each Camp Invention program, children rotate through five modules engaging in investigations, experiments, and engineering challenges that combine science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in fun, hands-on activities.
Club Invention
A program of Invent Now, Club Invention is an out-of-school-time program where children learn through hands-on fun. Children in grades one through six are immersed in activity-oriented adventures that enhance their understanding of science, mathematics, history, and the arts.
Collegiate Inventors Competition
Introduced in 1990, the Collegiate Inventors Competition has recognized, rewarded, and encouraged hundreds of college students to share their inventive ideas with the world. The competition promotes exploration in invention, science, engineering, technology, and other creative endeavors and provides a window on the technologies from which society will benefit in the future. Entries into the competition are judged on the originality and inventiveness of the new idea, process, or technology. Entries are also judged on their potential value to society and on the scope of use.
Community Partnership for Arts and Culture (CPAC)
CPAC's mission is to strengthen and unify Greater Cleveland's arts and culture sector. CPAC positions arts and culture as driving forces in building a vibrant community, particularly where community priorities and funding decisions are determined. The organization also informs community decision-making through credible research that demonstrates the contribution the arts and culture sector makes to the economy, education, and quality of life. CPAC offers the Artist as Entrepreneur Institute, an intensive business course designed for creative individuals and arts-based business owners. The program covers topics that impact an artist's daily operations, from creating a personal brand and marketing, to intellectual property, writing a business plan, and accounting.
National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA)
The NCIIA supports technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship in universities and colleges to create experiential learning opportunities for students and successful, socially-beneficial businesses. With a membership of nearly 200 colleges and universities from all over the United States, the NCIIA engages more than 5,000 student and faculty innovators and entrepreneurs each year, helping them to bring their concepts to commercialization. The NCIIA "pipeline" provides nascent student start-ups with early stage funding, business strategy development training, mentoring, and investment. The NCIIA provides faculty with funding for courses and programs, opportunities for recognition, and entrepreneurship education training and networking.
National Inventors Hall of Fame
The National Inventors Hall of Fame honors the women and men responsible for the great technological advances that make human, social, and economic progress possible. Each year, the Selection Committee of the National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation selects inventors for induction. These are selected from a field of people nominated by peers and the public. The Selection Committee includes representatives from the leading national scientific and technical organizations. In addition, the National Inventors Hall of Fame Lifetime Achievement Award annually honors individuals who have made significant contributions to invention and the American system of intellectual property protection.
The Shannon Rogers and Jerry Silverman School of Fashion Design and Merchandising (the Fashion School), Kent State University
The Ohio Board of Regents has endorsed the Fashion School as a "Center of Excellence" at Kent State University and in the State of Ohio. As a member of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, the Fashion School is also recognized as one of the top fashion schools in the United States. The School aspires to be the best American fashion school by providing a comprehensive American university experience, a forward-looking and rigorous curriculum in fashion, an aggressive approach to the use of digital technologies, and access to a broad range of international and study-away experiences.