History

The Minnesota Student Inventors Congress (MSIC) focuses on creativity, problem-solving and higher-order thinking skills.

In 1988, the Minnesota Inventors Congress, Minnesota Educational Cooperative Service Unit Association, and the Minnesota Academic Excellence Foundation began cosponsoring a statewide program for students. The Minnesota Student Inventors Congress is designed to meet the needs of students who have the ability to envision and create new ideas as well as the flexibility to recognize and adapt existing ideas to future use. Today the MSIC is coordinated solely by the Minnesota Inventors Congress.

Students in grades K-12 are encouraged to participate in the MSIC.

	2007 Parade float for Minnesota Student Inventors Congress exhibitors
	MIC Executive Director Deb Hess presenting to a 3rd and 4th grade pod of students. Topics included the impact our national space program has on the products we use in our everyday lives and the history of a few inventors who developed products as teenagers. Chanhassen, MN.
	MIC administrative staff, Jan Cornwell, conducting experiments with students and parents at the 2008 Southwest/West Central Service Cooperatives Science and Nature Conference, Marshall, MN.