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Learn how to improve on long-standing inventions with inventions of your own

Learn about assistive devices and how innovation plays a key role in the invention process

Hit the lights, please! In this lesson, students will learn about emerging technologies that are bringing new light sources to remote, poor areas of the world. Students will then invent their own light source using the steps of the invention process and share it via social media using #PBSInvention

Learn about fake social media accounts called ‘bots’ that have been used to try to influence public opinion—and not always for the better

Design an app that helps your community, modeled after young entrepreneurs in California's rural Salinas Valley