Presentation for Exhibitors at the Innovation Expo at COSI and the Invention Convention. Thank you for considering getting your company involved.

1. Innovation Expo
A Unique Opportunity to Support
Amazing Young Inventors in Your Community
COSI
Friday May 20 and Saturday May 21
www.just-think-inc.com

2. Amazing young inventors like
Jenifer are the stars of the program.
And the best of the best are
recognized in the “Invention
Convention Hall of Fame.”
We’ll introduce some of them in this
presentation.
Recognition for the students is a
fundamental tenant of the program,
showcasing their achievements as
problem solvers and entrepreneurs
who put their classroom lessons to
practical use in the real world.
The Invention Convention gives our
community a chance to see the
great work taking place in our
schools that generally goes
unnoticed.

3. Background
What is the Invention Convention?
• K-8 students invent and compete
• 26 regional school districts
participate (60,000+ students)
• Qualifiers compete at
COSI in May (320+ inventions)
• Students are recognized for
excellence already achieved
• 17th year of this annual event
• Free to schools
• Schools re-commit to participate every year:
District superintendents must sign an Agreement to participate
• $10,000 awarded in college scholarships to students
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5. Value of Program
• Inspires…
– Students to “think”
– Entrepreneurship and
real-world STEM learning
– Everyday problem solving
– Desire – kids want to do this
• Supports in-class curriculum, outside of the classroom
• Instills confidence as students present their work to judges
• Publicizes teachers and schools “good work”
• Provides excitement and fun with learning
• See more at www.just-think-inc.com
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7. Partners
2010 Prior Years
– Time Warner Cable – AT&T
– Honda of America – Battelle
– Donatos Pizza and JE Grote – Cardinal Health
Company – Grange
– Ingram White Castle Foundation
– Scotts Miracle Gro Company
– Ohio Tuition Trust Authority
– Worthington Industries
– Huntington Bank
– The Kroger Company Innovation Partners
– Limited Brands Foundation – COSI
– Pearne & Gordon, LLP – US Patent and Trademark Office
– Wolfe Associates – Great Lakes Science Center
– National Inventor’s Hall of Fame
– Wright State University College of
Engineering
– National Museum of Education
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9. Schools
These Central Ohio schools participate, and this list does not include Dayton, Cincinnati or Cleveland.
PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICTS PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICTS (con’t)
• Bexley City Schools http://www.bexleyschools.org/ • Pickerington Local Schools http://www.pickerington.k12.oh.us/
• Canal Winchester Local Schools http://www.canalwin.k12.oh.us/
• Reynoldsburg City Schools http://www.reyn.org/
• Columbus City Schools http://www.columbus.k12.oh.us/index.html
• Delaware City Schools • South-Western City Schools http://www.swcs.k12.oh.us/
http://www.dcs.k12.oh.us/delawarecs/site/default.asp • Southwest Licking Local Schools http://www.swl.k12.oh.us/
• Dublin City Schools http://www.dublinschools.net/ • Upper Arlington City Schools http://www.uaschools.org/
• Gahanna-Jefferson Public Schools
http://www.gahannaschools.org/ • Westerville City Schools http://www.westerville.k12.oh.us/
• Grandview Heights City Schools http://www.grandviewschools.org/ • West Jefferson Local Schools
• Hilliard City Schools http://www.hilliard.k12.oh.us/ • Worthington City Schools http://www.worthington.k12.oh.us/
• Johnstown-Monroe Local Schools
http://www.johnstown.k12.oh.us/johnstown/site/default.asp
• Lancaster City Schools PRIVATE SCHOOLS
• Licking Heights http://www.licking-heights.k12.oh.us/ • Tree of Life Christian Schools http://www.tolcs.org/
• Marysville Exempted Village Schools • Worthington Christian Schools
http://www.marysville.k12.oh.us/site/ http://www.worthingtonchristian.com/
• New Albany-Plain Local Schools http://www.napls.us/ • Wellington School http://www.wellington.org/
• Newark City Schools • St. Mary’s (Lancaster) http://www.saintmarylancaster.org/
• Northridge Local Schools http://northridge.k12.oh.us/ • St. Paul (Westerville) http://www.stpaulrams.org/
• Olentangy Local Schools http://www.olentangy.k12.oh.us/ • St. Michael’s (Clintonville) http://stmichael.cdeducation.org/
HOME AND VIRTUAL SCHOOLS
• Home School (North, West, East)
• Ohio Virtual Academy (OHVA) http://www.k12.com/ohva/
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11. Board Members
The Invention Convention is the primary project of Just Think, Inc, a 501(c)3 organization.
The Board of Directors includes:
– Bob Grote, JE Grote Company
– Deb Hackathorn, COSI
– Barbara Benham, Huntington Bank
– Tom Griesdorn, WBNS 10TV
– Stephen Zonars, Dispatch Printing Co
– Ben Cason, ThisWeek Community Newspapers
– Kellie Uhrig, The Ohio State University
– Sherry Lewis, Dispatch Printing Company
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12. Opportunity
Support Student Inventors and the Invention Convention Program.
We have packed this Supporting Innovation package with live messaging and powerful personal
marketing.
You receive:
– Exhibit space at COSI for two days, May 20 and 21
– Interact with 6,500 “high achievement” students who visit COSI and participate in
the Invention Convention (including their families)
– Engage visitors with your company or brand
– Provide promotional items and information to visitors
– Sponsor inventors from one selected school district
– Inclusion in press releases promoting the event
– Recognition in event signs, banners and web related to Innovation Expo
– Inclusion in event mailings to student inventors, families, teachers.
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13. Investment
Value $2,750
Regular Price $2,500
Retail price for non-affiliated businesses.
Board Member Network Price $2,000
Special price for businesses connected to
the network of a Board Member.
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14. More Inventors
Cold 'cure' wins Edison
Award
Two home-schooled students from
Westerville claimed the top prize at the 2008
Invention Convention by proposing a cure
for the common cold. Mark David Wright, a
seventh-grader, and Michelle Vawter, an
eighth-grader, claimed the Edison Award,
which includes a $2,500 college scholarship
from CollegeAdvantage.
"We spent a lot of work and time on this to
try to live up to their standards," Mark David
Wright said. Their invention, Immunity
Insurance, "releases proven cold-fighting
compounds into the body immediately after
the cold virus enters your body and well
before you feel the symptoms of a cold,"
Wright said. He and Vawter first came up
with the idea in October and then spent six
to seven months perfecting their cold-
fighting compound.
Read the whole story on ThisWeekNEWs.com
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15. More Inventors
Student lands first-place
prize for ‘Katabelt
Westgate Alternative School first-grader
Tyler Grayson Morefield received a first-
place prize in the kindergarten through
second-grade portion of the event for his
invention, the "Katabelt."
A first-grader at Westgate Alternative School
was among the winners of Columbus'
regional Invention Convention last month.
Morefield, who practices karate, said he
created the belt to help fellow students
remember their kata, a set of choreographed
movements. "The 'Katabelt' helps me
remember what moves come next in the
kata so people won't have to think what's
going," Morefield said.
Lisa Morefield, Tyler's mother, said the
Invention Convention acts as a good
learning tool. "At this age I think they start to
recognize that things are going on in the
world that are a little scary,"
Read the whole story on ThisWeekNEWs.com
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16. More Inventors
Cold Conqueror team
headed to national
science competition
State Rep. Marian Harris (D-Columbus)
meets with home-schooled students (from
left) Michelle Vawter, 15, of Westerville, Allie
Frazier, 15, of Sunbury, and Mark David
Wright, 14, of Westerville, at the Vern Riffe
Center Monday, June 1. The students, who
won the regional competition for
eCYBERMISSION, have been investigating
a cure for the common cold. Three local
teens will travel to the nation's capital next
month to show off their latest invention -- a
possible cure for the common cold.
Their product, Cold Conqueror, takes a
proactive approach to the problem, Vawter
said. "Our invention is a once-a-month nasal
inhalant that eliminates the common cold,"
she said. "It does this by releasing our
compound before someone starts feeling the
symptoms. They take it once a month, and it
helps their bodies to fight off the cold 24-7,
releasing when the germs enter the body,
not just when the patient takes the inhalant."
Click here for our website. Read the whole story on ThisWeekNEWs.com