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.
