This is an archived article. For the latest news, go to the Advance Homepage . The home court of the national champion Huskies, Gampel Pavilion, hosted exhibition play of a different sort March 27 when 2,000 participants, including 600 youthful competitors, assembled for the 16th annual Connecticut Invention Convention.
Engineers are inventors.
These children already are engineers, they just don't know it. Amir Faghri Dean of Engineering Sponsored in part by UConn's School of Engineering, the Invention Convention brought together students in grades K-12 from across Connecticut, whose inventions previously won in local competitions. The School of Engineering brought the Invention Convention to Storrs, for the first time in the event's history, with the objective of inspiring more Connecticut students to pursue academic training and careers in engineering. In the last decade, Connecticut has suffered a dangerous decline in the number of engineers graduating from its colleges and universities. If the state and Connecticut industry are to reverse this ominous trend, we must intervene now.