After School
 The Lyles Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at California State University, Fresno offers Kids Invent! After School Program.
A not-for-profit Science and Mathematics-based After School Program for elementary and middle school children.
MISSION
Our mission is to strengthen our community and empower our youth by providing quality hands-on after school programs that incorporate science, math, innovation and entrepreneurship, delivered through service learning opportunities for college students.
VISION
To provide seamless leadership between the university and the community that establishes, enhances, and creates long-term sustainability in quality after school program for children K-12 so that every child in the valley has access to safe after school choices.
Kids Invent! After School™ has served over 30 schools in the Central Valley; Fresno Unified, Madera Unified, Selma Unified, Parlier Unified, and Central Unified.
Each afterschool session is 90 minutes in length. All supplies for different activities are provided by Kids Invent! Activities stimulate creative instincts of children to invent by having them design and build mock-ups of toys. As they develop their toys, kids work with teachers and other students to overcome limitations and test their inventions. Kids take a toy home at the end of each session.
Participants are also encouraged to continue their project developments after the program has concluded by orienting them to opportunities to showcase their inventions at the National Toy Hall of Fame, the National Gallery for America’s Young Inventors, and in invention contests and programs. |
