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Text Box: In the Fall of 2007, Howard Community College, as part of its Entrepreneur Studies degree program, offered two sessions of an experiential course on technology transfer. As of August 30, thirty-two students were enrolled in the ENTR-215 “Technology Transfer from Invention to Marketplace,” which is supported by the NSF -TAP grant. The course content explains licensing, joint venture, and cooperative research and development, as well as how to search the Web to find all necessary data, and aids in the determination of royalty rates and other sections for term sheets. Students form teams and each team in the program

Text Box: receive mentorship and guidance from volunteer scientists and professionals from the Technology Transfer area.

Text Box: Fun experiments all about inventing, inventions made by kids, workshops, invention stories, learning about the patent system, understanding what a patent search is and more were included in the summer course “Young Inventor at Work” at Howard Community College. Twenty seven students, ages 11-14, worked together to solve technology-based problems. They learned science and engineering principles by building and testing model structures, through games and using various methods to design the new product. “We learn as much from the students as they do from us. We enjoyed the ideas expressed by the next generation of young inventors. The

Text Box: Inventum mutat mundum ~ Latin Inventions change the world

Oct. 2007, Volume 5

Funded by a National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grant No. 0538751

The NSF -TAP grant is dedicated to raising student interest and knowledge skills in Technology Transfer.

The grant is based on the belief that the future of invention in America begins with encouraging a passion for the science and technology in today’s young minds.

Letters from the Students	2
If an opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door	2
WIN A PRIZE	2
T²- The Road from the Laboratory to the Marketplace	3
Status of Invention Assessment Projects	3
Spotlight on TAP	4