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    Have you ever thought about all the inventors that make our Thanksgiving celebration possible? Get ready to meet these innovators on our Thanksgiving Day parade across your plate. Our first stop is pretty corny...because we’re talking all about corn! How we use...

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    Katia Avila Pinedo talks about the Heart & Sole, a device she invented to help diabetic people as part of the Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam. Grades K-5.
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    This video is from USPTO's free Youth Day Program for student innovators, creators, and aspiring entrepreneurs. Students learn about app development and intellectual property by exploring the Congressional App Challenge. Student moderator Elvisa Ofori, a...

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    The National Summer Teacher Institute (NSTI) on innovation, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) combines experiential training tools, practices, and project-based learning models to support elementary, middle, and high school teachers and...

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    Whether it happens among students in a classroom, or engineers in a laboratory, innovation is a process, a series of steps that begins with imagination, and results in the creation of something of value for society.
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    3-D printing is an innovative manufacturing technique developed by Professors Michael Cima and Emanuel Sachs from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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    Electronics, apparel, and pharmaceuticals are only some of the products counterfeiters try to fake.
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    In a science known as biometrics, physical or behavioral characteristics are used for personal identification.
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    Professor Homayoon Kazerooni is a robotics engineer at the University of California, Berkeley with more than 40 patents to his name.
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    At Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, computer scientist Sebastian Thrun and his team of software engineers are creating a fleet of self-driving cars.
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    Professors John Rogers and Yonggang Huang have collaborated to design and engineer an electronic tattoo.
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    Professor Steve Hutcheson at the University of Maryland is developing a new approach to producing biofuels from cellulosic biomass, using a bacterium discovered in the Chesapeake Bay.
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    Concrete is one of the most common construction materials in the world, with its basic technology dating back to the ancient Romans.
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    As an alternative to finding diamonds in nature for his scientific experiments, Professor Russell Hemley of the Geographical Laboratory at the Carnegie Institute of Washington creates an innovative method of making large synthetic diamonds in the laboratory.
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    Professors Reginald Farrow and Zafar Iqbal at the New Jersey Institute of Technology have collaborated on a series of innovations to make the energy conversion process that occurs within fuel cells as efficient as possible.
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    Welding has long been used to join pieces of metal together.
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    William Provancher of Tactical Haptics has developed a device that combines the sense of touch with technology.
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    Angelique Johnson is the CEO of MEMStim, a company that is innovating how electrode arrays in cochlear implants are manufactured.
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    While most people see viruses as harmful, Angela Belcher at MIT sees the future of energy.
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    Origami is the ancient Japanese art of paper folding.

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