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InVenture Prize School

All students who are interested in competing or have submitted an Intent to Compete are invited to InVenture Prize School. These comprise a variety of alternating "how to" seminars and coaching sessions to help with preparation to register and compete successfully. Attendance is not required and you can still compete effectively without attending. The environment is casual and we'll have snacks.

"How To" Seminars:
Location: MRDC room 2404
Maps: GT Campus Map Google Maps
Date/Time: Wednesdays from 6p-7p as below

Each talk is about 30 minutes followed by questions and answers. The presenters assume no prior knowledge and cover only the essentials. The presentations and supporting material are available from the InVenture Prize Podcast!

Coaching Sessions:
Location: Student Success Center Presidential Suites
Date/Time: Wednesdays from 6p-730p as below

These sessions will involve 1 on 1 chats with the faculty organizing committee and relevant advisors (e.g. lawyers, entrepreneurs) to help you with your invention. Questions could be related to the seminars, registration or developing your ideas for the competition, for example. And we’ll have pizza!

Schedule:


9/23/09 Seminar How to think like an inventor:
9/30/09 Coaching Session  
10/7/2009 Seminar How to protect your ideas: IP for Student Inventors
  • "Ready, set, go!: How to get your intellectual property ready for competition"
  • Kevin Wozniak, Director of Georgia Tech Office of Technology Licensing
10/14/09 Coaching Session  
10/21/09 Seminar It's all about risk:
  • "Turning Your Idea into an Innovation!"
  • Merrick Furst, Distinguished Professor, College of Computing
10/28/09 Coaching Session  
11/11/09 Seminar How to Answer Questions About Market Size and Marketability:
  • "The Basics of Making Innovations Important"
  • Merrick Furst, Distinguished Professor, College of Computing
11/18/09 Seminar How to Obtain Resources:
  • "Money you Need to make your Innovation Succeed"
  • Merrick Furst, Distinguished Professor, College of Computing
1/13/10 Seminar How to Make a Pitch:

Speaker Biographies:

Lara Hodgson

Aerospace Engineering degree from GT, Harvard MBA, Patent-holder, Entrepreneur, Contrarian, Mom

Merrick Furst

Merrick L. Furst, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, runs commercialization and new venture creation and directs undergraduate programs and faculty development in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. He recently founded the anti-botnet startup, Damballa, Inc. Prior to GT he was a professor at UC Berkeley, president of the International Computer Science Institute at Berkeley and CEO of Essential Surfing Gear, Inc., which grew to 53 employees before being sold in 2000. He also helped establish a new high school in San Francisco. Earlier he was professor and associate dean in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon. Dr. Furst is known for seminal research in algorithms, complexity theory and AI. Merrick co-invented probabilistic circuit analysis and planning graphs, which are considered among the most influential breakthroughs in the field of AI planning.

Inventors Registered: 0

Georgia Tech Professor Bill Singhose and his students have developed a control algorithm for a huge gantry crane!

For more info, check out
http://www.me.gatech.edu/inputshaping

Georgia Tech graduates Craig Forest and David Moeller audition for the reality show American Inventor in New York City in April 2007.

For more info visit:
http://americaninventorclaw.com/

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