Tomorrow’s success lies in the hands of creative youth.

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Ensure an innovative future.

WHO ARE WE?

The Western New York Invention Convention is part of a larger, state-wide program originally started in Buffalo more than 20 years ago. The goal of the Invention Convention is to promote creative thinking and encourage scientific problem solving in K-8^th grade students. Public, Private and Charter School students are all invited to develop solutions to problems they encounter in their daily lives, and to submit their final inventions to our organization through their school representatives.

HOW DO KIDS BENEFIT?

The rewards of such a process are multilevel: the emotional satisfaction of creatively solving a problem, the benefit of parents and students working together, and the development of problem solving skills that may encourage further interest in math and science related careers.

WHEN DOES THIS TAKE PLACE?

This year’s Regional event takes place at the Buffalo Museum of Science April 26^th, 2008. Twenty five students will be selected to represent our region at the NY State Invention Convention taking place in Buffalo this year on June 14^th.  From this pool of Western New York talent, the Niagara Frontier Intellectual Property Law Association (NFIPLA) will select a Young Inventor of the Year, to be recognized with the other finalists at the annual NFIPLA Inventor of the Year Awards Dinner.