Dates: July 25-29, 2022

Summary: The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Office of Education will conduct a virtual National Summer Teacher Institute (NSTI) on innovation, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), and intellectual property. 

NSTI combines experiential training tools, practices, and project-based learning models to support elementary, middle, and high school teachers, and increase their knowledge of inventing and innovating. The central focus of NSTI is to create and protect intellectual property—this includes inventions, knowledge discovery, creative ideas, and expressions of the human mind that may have commercial value and are protectable under patent, trademark, copyright, or trade secret laws. Intellectual property is modeled as both a teaching and learning platform to help inspire and motivate student achievement in STEM disciplines, computer science, and other fields of study, such as innovation and entrepreneurship.