Making Makers: Inventionland Education’s Formula for Future Creators

A challenge in American innovation has been growing for years. As manufacturing shifted overseas and fewer students engaged with science, many companies began noticing a talent gap in STEM and STEAM fields.

In this conversation with co-host Greg Costantino, George M. Davison discusses his decade-long effort to address that gap by developing a practical invention education system now reaching schools across more than half the United States.

The approach blends creativity from nature and the arts with structured innovation methods and real-world production skills. The results are clear: students who once struggled find new ways to succeed, top performers take on fresh challenges, and collaboration thrives through three-person invention teams.

Already, classrooms are seeing higher engagement, with some students even licensing their ideas and bringing products to market. Many of these efforts come to life in the Invention Contest, where students showcase their creativity, pitch their prototypes, and gain real-world experience in innovation.

Step by step, this program is helping to strengthen the nation’s pipeline of future innovators. Just as science labs once laid the foundation for new industries, Inventionland Education is preparing today’s students to develop the ideas and solutions that will shape tomorrow.

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