+ InnoWorks

Welcome to InnoWorks!

The school year 2018-2019 marks the 16th year of InnoWorks. We have successfully conducted over 90 Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine (STEM2) summer and school-year workshops for about 3,000 middle-school students, benefiting from the contributions and hard work of over 1,000 college mentors and staff.

InnoWorks currently have more than a dozen university chapters and we anticipate well over 500 InnoWorkers (InnoWorks students) will benefit from our 2018-2019 workshops.

If you are interested in starting a new chapter, volunteering or have questions or comments, please contact Maria Chang, InnoWorks Chief Operating Officer at coo@innoworks.org.

The entire InnoWorks family welcome chapters at Rutgers University, University of California at Berkeley, University of Texas at Austin and Northwestern University. We wish them all the best on their wonderful journeys to serve their communities.

InnoWorks is a winner of the 2007 BRICK Awards

www.brickawards.com


Awards and Honors

United InnoWorks Academy, Inc. and its volunteers have been awarded the President's Volunteer Service Award presented by the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation in collaboration with the Corporation for National & Community Service and the USA Freedom Corps.

Anti-Discrimination Policy

United InnoWorks Academy (UIA) shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion (creed), gender, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status, in any of its activities or operations. These activities include, but are not limited to, hiring and firing of staff, selection of volunteers, selection of vendors, and provision of services.

InnoWorks 2019 Schedule (TBA)

UCLA InnoWorks
June, 2019

University of California Berkeley InnoWorks
August, 2019

University of Maryland InnoWorks
August, 2019

Duke University InnoWorks
August, 2019

University of Pennsylvania InnoWorks
August, 2019

InnoWorks at the University of Michigan
August, 2019

InnoWorks at the Rutgers University
Tentative, 2019



InnoWorks News

MIT Successfully Completes the first International InnoBox Program in South Africa!

InnoBox Science and Engineering Kit

MIT 2013 InnoBox Invitation

MIT 2013 InnoBox Report

MIT InnoWorks was honored with the 2011 MIT Global Challenge Community Choice Award for the InnoBox Project. InnoBox also won the 2011 MIT IDEAS (Innovation, Development, Enterprise, Action and Service) Challenge Grand Prize!

InnoBox Science and Engineering Kit

MIT IDEAS Global Challenge: News & Updates

MIT Awards Ceremony Live | MIT IDEAS Global Challenge

MIT InnoBox Team: William Hwang, Ambar Mehta, Jennifer Li, Nischay Kumar

William Hwang Accepting the Awards at the MIT Global Challenge Award Ceremony

Ambar Mehta Accepting the Awards at the MIT Global Challenge Award Ceremony

InnoWorks 2018 Workshops (Completed)

UCLA InnoWorks
June 18 - 22, 2018

University of California Berkeley InnoWorks
August 13 - 17, 2018

University of Maryland InnoWorks
August 13 - 17, 2018

Duke University InnoWorks
August 20 - 24, 2018

University of Pennsylvania InnoWorks
August 20 - 24, 2018

InnoWorks at the University of Michigan
August 20 - 25, 2018


We've completed our third book and are now working on a fourth!

The InnoWorks new "The Eureka Effect!" curriculum was successfully debuted at the 2007 Duke and Arizona InnoWorks Programs and updated for 2010 at the UMCP and Penn programs.

 

The InnoWorks "Dare to Discover" curriculum was successfully debuted at the 2006 Duke InnoWorks Program. Just updated in 2010.

 

 

"Making Sense of Senses" was used at the 2006 University of Arizona InnoWorks program, as well as the 2005 Duke University and University of Maryland InnoWorks. Just updated in 2010.Feel free to take a look!

Advertise for InnoWorks! The current InnoWorks brochure focuses on our successes, while revealing the valuable opportunities for undergraduates and middle-schoolers alike to connect at an innovative summer workshop.

MIT News: Spotlight on service - IDEAS and Global Challenge competitions award nearly $150,000 to teams of public service innovators working around the world.

MIT Tech News: Spotlight on service

"... A lack of scientists and engineers can stunt economic growth in both developed and developing countries. The InnoBox team attributes students’ lack of interest in science to deficiencies in science education — specifically, inadequate teaching materials in primary schools. They plan to address the problem with inexpensive and portable kits for teaching science and engineering, called “InnoBoxes” and developed in conjunction with Cambridge-based United InnoWorks Academy. Using their $15,000 worth of seed funding (a $10,000 IDEAS award and a $5,000 Community Choice award), the group will partner with a middle school in South Africa to bring the kits to more than 300 students."

... our plan is to impact a lot more youths, in rural areas all over the world,...