Project Detail
Invention & Patent Filing
Identify a real-world problem, design a solution, build a prototype, and file a provisional patent. Your mentor guides you through the entire invention cycle - including patent search, application drafting, and USPTO filing.
Real results
Student Success Spotlight
See what some of our students have built and achieved through this project path.
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Mentors for This Project
Work one-on-one with a specialist who has experience bringing projects like this to life.
Dr. Joy Li
Engineering & Research Mentor
Dr. Li has spent nine years at a lab bench, which means she's seen a thousand experiments fail before they worked - and that's exactly what she teaches students to expect and embrace. Kids leave her mentorship unafraid of the messy middle of real science. (PhD Biomedical Engineering, Duke; BS Cornell, Magna Cum Laude.)
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Paola Romero
Engineering Project Mentor (MIT)
Paola runs a makerspace at MIT, which means her favorite sentence is 'let's just try it.' She teaches students to 3D print, laser cut, and prototype their way to confidence, because nothing convinces a kid they're an engineer like holding something they built. (MIT Mechanical Engineering; medical-device intern at Lexington Medical.)
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Caden Tan
Engineering Project Mentor (Johns Hopkins)
Caden spent four years in a hands-on engineering program as a teenager - soldering, laser cutting, leading project teams - so he remembers exactly what it's like to learn by building. Now a researcher at Johns Hopkins, he mentors students the way he wishes someone had mentored him: side by side, tools out. (JHU Biomedical Engineering.)
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