NextMinds

At Home Innovation

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At Home Innovation is an audio educational resource from NextMinds! We’re bringing STEM and next-gen learning outside the walls of a classroom by providing parents, caregivers, and educators with the toolkit to help young innovators grow in their inventiveness, ability to identify problems, and to create meaningful solutions! As we grow our inventiveness, our world becomes a better place! ⭐ For more At Home Innovation resources, go to NextMinds.org .

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Ensuring Your Idea is Novel 25.03.2026 20:12

Welcome to episode four of our six-episode Intro to Innovation & Invention series! In this episode, we're joined by special guest, Christine Lawlor-King to talk about how young innovators can make sure their invention is original! Even young innovators should know about intellectual property and how it goes hand-in-hand with inventing! 🔗 Resources Mentioned in This Episode United States Paten...

Sharing and Validating Ideas 05.03.2026 10:18

Welcome to episode three of of six-episode Intro to Innovation & Invention series! This episode is all about how innovators need to share and validate their ideas. By sharing their ideas, your young innovator can get helpful feedback to improve their invention or can even inspire another person to start inventing! ⭐ For more At Home Innovation resources, go to NextMinds.org .

Identifying a Problem to Solve 25.02.2026 11:56

Welcome to episode two of of six-episode Intro to Innovation & Invention series! Once your young innovator has started their innovation journey, the first major milestone for them is to identify a problem. Every invention starts with a problem. The problem is an innovator’s driving force to invent. ⭐ For more At Home Innovation resources, go to NextMinds.org .

Intro to Invention 18.02.2026 12:01

At Home Innovation, a podcast of the NextMinds Invention Convention programs, is designed to help young innovators and the adults in their lives grow in their inventiveness, ability to identify problems, and to create meaningful solutions. With this episode, we begin our six-episode series introducing our six units for innovation and invention. In this episode, we introduce you to inventing and in...