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Over two days nearly 37,000 people filled
the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.,

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for a celebration of American ingenuity.

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Featuring 11 exhibitors from corporations,

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academic institutions, the federal government,
and independent inventors, the innovation

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festival brought together diverse, patented
technologies in one inspiring location.

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Visitors also attended educational presentations
and got to meet such historical innovators

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as

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Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, and Madame
C.J. Walker.

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"So invent, create, and innovate!"

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It has been fascinating walking around seeing
how many different things are represented

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and how interested the visitors are.

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My name is Aleksandar Egelja. I'm one of the
engineers from Caterpillar here. Today what

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we'll be talking about is one of our patents
that is applied in our newest 663 hybrid excavator.

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The bowl is definitely spill resistant. So
it's designed for kids who are trying not

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to spill their snacks.

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I am Kristin Bell. I invented the VestPackz.
My teacher asked us to come up with a problem

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and solve the problem with an invention. So
my problem was heavy backpacks.

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My name is Alexei Novitsky, and these are
my skateboards. They're the only skate boards

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in the world that open and you put can your
personal items inside.

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Here we have the OxySure Model 615. It's a
portable emergency oxygen device for layperson use.

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I've been an engineer with Qualcomm Research
for about eight years. We believe in creating

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a culture where people can innovate and form
teams and bring the next ideas into market

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and the future that can then change the world.

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Hi, I'm Leanne Gluck. I'm the director of
social impact at 3D Systems. 3D Systems is

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actually one of the largest 3D Printing companies
in the world. We invented 3D printing.

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Most people think USDA is involved in food
safety and certification, inspection, and

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grade- A chickens, and things like that. What
they don't realize is most of the food we

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eat are USDA innovations and technologies.

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The idea came to me because I was working
with dancers with and without disabilities,

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and also my father was in a severe car accident,
which left him disabled. So I started thinking

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a lot about the design of wheelchairs and
ways in which we can make wheelchairs more

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interactive with people and also make the
wheelchair an expressive device.

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We're here to talk about the inflatable seat
belt. We combine the two technologies with

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the air bag and the seat belt, and we came
up with this inflatable belt system.

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Today we're making models and showing products
that are done on what's called a Makerbot

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3D Printer, which is available for anyone
to use in their home to create almost anything

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you can imagine.

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The Innovation Festival is the first of many
exciting events to come under a new agreement

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between the Smithsonian Institution and the
United States Patent and Trademark Office.

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For the next five years this collaboration
will help ignite the inventive spirit in a

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new generation of innovators and creators
in America. So get ready, because we're just

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getting started.

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Inventorship is kind of at the forefront of
what makes America America in my opinion.

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You just have all of these people who had
these small ideas who turned into big empires.

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And little places like these that just really
facilitate that conversation, educate, and

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gives the ability for people to showcase their
stuff from all around the world. It's really

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important.

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