Young students invent, it is just their way. When a student adds to someone else's invention idea, telling them about multiple inventors on patents always gets a positive reaction! But really focusing on IP and invention was an unfulfilled promise until I first taught high school. High school students can produce ideas that rival those I heard daily during the pioneer days of personal computing. Over time, my classes began to resemble my early R&D experience. In 1982, I was employed by Tandy Corporation, developer of one of the earliest personal computers, the TRS-80. Tandy couldn’t recruit enough trained developers, so we often hired hobbyists, yet our department was a creative oasis! I would eventually be awarded 20 US patents. But the fact is that the invention process has an uncanny equalizing effect; anyone, at any age, can invent. When I left industry two decades later I still worked with many of these same “untrained” engineers, their names listed alongside mine on US patents. This equalizing effect is both humbling, and very important to our students and ExplorTech’s mission!