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- On January 8 Linda Hall Library hosted ~80 students from St. Teresa’s Academy for a kick-off event for the Kansas City Invention Convention (KCIC).
- Over the course of 2 hours, the students. participated in speed-dating-like sessions for 20-30 minutes on:
- Patent searching (including the basics of intellectual property).
- Patent and invention information in our collections (including a hands-on exercise).
- Tour of our exhibit, Chained to the Skywith a discussion of inventions and their ecological impact.
- Shout-out to event organizer: Matt Reeves, Coordinator of KCIC, and Reference Librarians Sara Mawhirter(MIST-LS, MU-Columbia) and Sophia Hahn (MLS, UW-Madison).
- Revised the USPTO Invention Game and distributed it to the teachers after the event.
- Updated the library’s LibGuide on patents and trademarks with the new info in Patent Public Search and Trademark Search.
