Event Description

Inventing MB

Supernova Award Merit Badge (www.scouting.org/STEM)

Elizabeth Pierotti, owner of The Inventing Life, is a seasoned inventor and multiple patent holder who has brought innovative concepts to Fortune 500 companies and small businesses that generated more than $100 million in sales. As an inventor educator, she has given classes to thousands on the inventing process and mentored hundreds of first-time inventors and startups. Her one-on-one process for innovators won her the 2008 RI Innovation Champion award. She is the author of “The Inventing Life” and the upcoming “8 Steps to Successful Inventing.”Inventing

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Age Guide: G

Prerequisites: All scouts are asked to begin # 6 – thinking of an item to invent and be prepared to discuss it. Scouts who wish may also complete the advance work for or begin #’s 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9 before the session.

Elizabeth M. Pierotti

Elizabeth Pierotti, owner of The Inventing Life, is a seasoned inventor and multiple patent holder who has brought innovative concepts to Fortune 500 companies and small businesses that generated more than $100 million in sales. As an inventor educator, she has given classes to thousands on the inventing process and mentored hundreds of first-time inventors and startups. Her one-on-one process for innovators won her the 2008 RI Innovation Champion award. She is the author of “The Inventing Life” and the upcoming “8 Steps to Successful Inventing.”