Innovation ExpoA Unique Opportunity to Support Amazing Young Inventors in Your Community

COSIFriday May 20 and Saturday May 21www.just-think-inc.com

Amazing young inventors like Jenifer are the stars of the program. And the best of the best are recognized in the “Invention Convention Hall of Fame.”

We’ll introduce some of them in this presentation.

Recognition for the students is a fundamental tenant of the program, showcasing their achievements as problem solvers and entrepreneurs who put their classroom lessons to practical use in the real world.

The Invention Convention gives our community a chance to see the great work taking place in our schools that generally goes unnoticed.

Background

What is the Invention Convention?• K-8 students invent and compete • 26 regional school districts

participate (60,000+ students)• Qualifiers compete at

COSI in May (320+ inventions)• Students are recognized for

excellence already achieved• 17th year of this annual event• Free to schools• Schools re-commit to participate every year:

District superintendents must sign an Agreement to participate• $10,000 awarded in college scholarships to students

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Value of Program

• Inspires…– Students to “think”– Entrepreneurship and

real-world STEM learning– Everyday problem solving– Desire – kids want to do this

• Supports in-class curriculum, outside of the classroom• Instills confidence as students present their work to judges• Publicizes teachers and schools “good work”• Provides excitement and fun with learning• See more at www.just-think-inc.com

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Partners

2010– Time Warner Cable– Honda of America– Donatos Pizza and JE Grote

Company– Ingram White Castle Foundation– Ohio Tuition Trust Authority– Huntington Bank– The Kroger Company– Limited Brands Foundation– Pearne & Gordon, LLP– Wolfe Associates

Prior Years– AT&T– Battelle– Cardinal Health – Grange– Scotts Miracle Gro Company– Worthington Industries

Innovation Partners– COSI– US Patent and Trademark Office– Great Lakes Science Center– National Inventor’s Hall of Fame– Wright State University College of

Engineering– National Museum of Education

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Schools

PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICTS• Bexley City Schools http://www.bexleyschools.org/• Canal Winchester Local Schools http://www.canalwin.k12.oh.us/• Columbus City Schools http://www.columbus.k12.oh.us/index.html• Delaware City Schools

http://www.dcs.k12.oh.us/delawarecs/site/default.asp• Dublin City Schools http://www.dublinschools.net/• Gahanna-Jefferson Public Schools

http://www.gahannaschools.org/• Grandview Heights City Schools http://www.grandviewschools.org/• Hilliard City Schools http://www.hilliard.k12.oh.us/• Johnstown-Monroe Local Schools

http://www.johnstown.k12.oh.us/johnstown/site/default.asp• Lancaster City Schools • Licking Heights http://www.licking-heights.k12.oh.us/• Marysville Exempted Village Schools

http://www.marysville.k12.oh.us/site/• New Albany-Plain Local Schools http://www.napls.us/• Newark City Schools• Northridge Local Schools http://northridge.k12.oh.us/• Olentangy Local Schools http://www.olentangy.k12.oh.us/

PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICTS (con’t)• Pickerington Local Schools http://www.pickerington.k12.oh.us/• Reynoldsburg City Schools http://www.reyn.org/• South-Western City Schools http://www.swcs.k12.oh.us/• Southwest Licking Local Schools http://www.swl.k12.oh.us/• Upper Arlington City Schools http://www.uaschools.org/• Westerville City Schools http://www.westerville.k12.oh.us/• West Jefferson Local Schools• Worthington City Schools http://www.worthington.k12.oh.us/

PRIVATE SCHOOLS• Tree of Life Christian Schools http://www.tolcs.org/• Worthington Christian Schools

http://www.worthingtonchristian.com/• Wellington School http://www.wellington.org/• St. Mary’s (Lancaster) http://www.saintmarylancaster.org/• St. Paul (Westerville) http://www.stpaulrams.org/• St. Michael’s (Clintonville) http://stmichael.cdeducation.org/

HOME AND VIRTUAL SCHOOLS• Home School (North, West, East)• Ohio Virtual Academy (OHVA) http://www.k12.com/ohva/

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These Central Ohio schools participate, and this list does not include Dayton, Cincinnati or Cleveland.

Board Members

The Invention Convention is the primary project of Just Think, Inc, a 501(c)3 organization.The Board of Directors includes:

– Bob Grote, JE Grote Company– Deb Hackathorn, COSI– Barbara Benham, Huntington Bank– Tom Griesdorn, WBNS 10TV– Stephen Zonars, Dispatch Printing Co– Ben Cason, ThisWeek Community Newspapers– Kellie Uhrig, The Ohio State University– Sherry Lewis, Dispatch Printing Company

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Opportunity

Support Student Inventors and the Invention Convention Program.We have packed this Supporting Innovation package with live messaging and powerful personal marketing.

You receive:– Exhibit space at COSI for two days, May 20 and 21– Interact with 6,500 “high achievement” students who visit COSI and participate in

the Invention Convention (including their families)– Engage visitors with your company or brand– Provide promotional items and information to visitors– Sponsor inventors from one selected school district– Inclusion in press releases promoting the event– Recognition in event signs, banners and web related to Innovation Expo– Inclusion in event mailings to student inventors, families, teachers.

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Investment

Value $2,750

Regular Price $2,500

Board Member Network Price $2,000

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Special price for businesses connected to the network of a Board Member.

Retail price for non-affiliated businesses.

More InventorsCold 'cure' wins Edison AwardTwo home-schooled students from Westerville claimed the top prize at the 2008 Invention Convention by proposing a cure for the common cold. Mark David Wright, a seventh-grader, and Michelle Vawter, an eighth-grader, claimed the Edison Award, which includes a $2,500 college scholarship from CollegeAdvantage. "We spent a lot of work and time on this to try to live up to their standards," Mark David Wright said. Their invention, Immunity Insurance, "releases proven cold-fighting compounds into the body immediately after the cold virus enters your body and well before you feel the symptoms of a cold," Wright said. He and Vawter first came up with the idea in October and then spent six to seven months perfecting their cold-fighting compound.

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More InventorsStudent lands first-place prize for ‘KatabeltWestgate Alternative School first-grader Tyler Grayson Morefield received a first-place prize in the kindergarten through second-grade portion of the event for his invention, the "Katabelt."A first-grader at Westgate Alternative School was among the winners of Columbus' regional Invention Convention last month. Morefield, who practices karate, said he created the belt to help fellow students remember their kata, a set of choreographed movements. "The 'Katabelt' helps me remember what moves come next in the kata so people won't have to think what's going," Morefield said.Lisa Morefield, Tyler's mother, said the Invention Convention acts as a good learning tool. "At this age I think they start to recognize that things are going on in the world that are a little scary," Read the whole story on ThisWeekNEWs.com

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More InventorsCold Conqueror team headed to national science competitionState Rep. Marian Harris (D-Columbus) meets with home-schooled students (from left) Michelle Vawter, 15, of Westerville, Allie Frazier, 15, of Sunbury, and Mark David Wright, 14, of Westerville, at the Vern RiffeCenter Monday, June 1. The students, who won the regional competition for eCYBERMISSION, have been investigating a cure for the common cold. Three local teens will travel to the nation's capital next month to show off their latest invention -- a possible cure for the common cold. Their product, Cold Conqueror, takes a proactive approach to the problem, Vawtersaid. "Our invention is a once-a-month nasal inhalant that eliminates the common cold," she said. "It does this by releasing our compound before someone starts feeling the symptoms. They take it once a month, and it helps their bodies to fight off the cold 24-7, releasing when the germs enter the body, not just when the patient takes the inhalant." Read the whole story on ThisWeekNEWs.comClick here for our website.