Greenon Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam

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When the director of the Ohio EPA sends an achievement plaque and a signed personal note for your high school project that was also awarded a patent 😎 Ohio Environmental Protection Agency Lemelson-MIT Program

Thank you to The Abilities Connection - TAC for helping us build the first prototype of our net. We are excited to have our full sized invention to begin testing in the spring!! Lemelson-MIT Program

A HUGE Greenon Local School District shout out to TAC Industries! Thank you for the wonderful tour as well as helping our high school Lemelson-MIT Program InvenTeam manufacture our invention. We’re looking forward to working together over the winter. Thank you for all that you do to help our community!

Check out this article in the Springfield News-Sun about our patent pending prototype!

Greenon High School invention team patent pending for environmental prototype Greenon High School invention team patent pending for animal-friendly prototype of net system

Guess who’s featured on the Lemelson-MIT website! 😎

Greenon Local Schools InvenTeam Applies for Patent | Lemelson In February of 2020, the Greenon Local Schools InvenTeam held their Mid-Grant Technical Review where they presented the prototype of their animal-friendly net system that covers the end of drain pipes and catches litter and debris, stopping it from entering local waterways. It was only a few weeks l...

The Greenon InvenTeam would like to thank Hays Fabricating & Welding Inc for their generous donation that will allow us to continue working on our invention!

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We are very honored to receive this recognition from the Ohio State Senate. We look forward to being able to continue working on our invention over the upcoming school year.
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Our team would like to thank the Lemelson-MIT Program for the gifts that they sent for the team. Not only did our team enjoy our goodies, we are very thankful for the experience we had throughout the whole program. As well as thanking the program, our team wanted to wish all of the Fathers out there a very happy Father’s Day!
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During this Covid-19 shutdown, our team has gotten through a lot. We received some bad news, but we have tried to fight through it and continue to work on our project as normally as possible. Unfortunately the team will be unable to travel to DC at the end of June to participate in a normal Eurekafest, but the Lemelson-Mit Inventeam leaders have some big plans for an online Eurekafest so that the teams are still able to present the projects and interact with other teams and coaches to receive some much needed outside advice or positive words. If you would like to read more about what our team has been doing in these past months as well as right before school was closed, click the link below and read our team blog written by Arizona Henderson.

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Greenon InvenTeam Update | Lemelson-MIT Program The weeks before Ohio declared quarantine is when our group really started bonding as a team and making consistent progress on developing our system. Unfortunately, just as our team and our project started to come together our objective was taken from us. Weeks before school ended our team had our M...