Program and Teams
In this program, we are mentoring our students to ‘THINK’, ‘ANALYZE’, ‘EVALUATE’, ‘CREATE’ and ‘INNOVATE’. They learn to identify real-world problems and innovate patentable STEM solutions to these problems. Different programs are designed with different philosophies in mind, ranging from introduction to Innovative thought process to nurturing expert innovators who can mentor others to innovate. Our entrepreneurship program is designed to nurture the ‘Steve Jobs’ and ‘Bill Gates’ of the future, wherein we mentor them to take an idea and launch it into market as a product.
We offer a range of programs with different duration. While DiscoverSTEM SIP lasts for four weeks, our other program ILM runs for four years. For more information, please check our program pages.
To enable parents to develop ‘innovation culture’ at home, we regularly conduct training sessions, guiding them on how to challenge their child’s intellectual capabilities.
As of now, we offer In-Person course from our state-of-the-art Innovation Lab located in Plano, Texas (USA). We also offer online courses without any geographical limitations. We’ve successfully mentored kids from Australia, Malaysia, United Kingdom, the Middle East, India, Canada, and several states in the USA.
Application
Step1: Send us your interest to join the program by clicking here
Step 2: We’ll schedule information and a Q&A session where we will give more details about the program and answer your questions. The information session is followed by a tour of our Innovation Lab. Kid and parent must attend to proceed.
Step 3: If you meet our eligibility criteria and are also interested to join this program, we’ll send the Application Form and schedule the selection test.
Step 4:Please fill out the application form and attend our very interesting selection
test along with parents and siblings. The selection test comprises of:
i. Left and Right brain coordination test (3-minutes)
ii. Learning curve test (3-minutes)
iii. Creativity & family innovation culture test (10-minutes)
iv. Abstract, Forward & Backward Thinking test (10 minutes)
v. Interview (10-minutes)
Step 5:If you make it to our merit list, we’ll inform you via email and text message to allot you a seat! You may now start your journey to be our next young inventor!
We normally accept kids between 10-18 years for SIP, DIP, and ILM. For DEP, we only accept high school and college students. Sometimes, we may make exemptions to accept younger kids based on their performance.
After DiscoverSTEM
The selection rate at some of the best universities in the world is approximately 5 percent. Every applicant is competing to be in that slot. Now consider the fact that only 0.2 percent of the world population has patents/innovations to their name. This stellar achievement speaks for an applicant and adds a significant differentiator to their profile. No wonder, approximately 85 percent of our students get some sort of scholarship for their college and many of them are accepted in top universities, including IVY league schools.
Of course! Every innovation is evaluated for its commercial potential by our business experts. If innovation is found to be commercially viable, you may join our DiscoverSTEM Entrepreneurship Program (DEP) to learn the nitty-gritty of product launch and launch your start-up along with assigned team. For more details, please see our DEP program.
Innovation and Patents
This program teaches our students to innovate. Approximately 90% of our students end up innovating something patentable, however we do NOT guarantee an innovation in this program. The fee is not paid for filing ‘patents’ either. We offer COMPLIMENTARY filing of patent application if we so choose at our discretion (through our internal or third-party resources) with United States Patent and Trademark Office. Therefore, the fee is not returnable.
Yes. Your child will be automatically listed and named as a co-inventor provided he/she meet the following conditions.
- They have contributed to at least one claim of the innovation.
- They have attended a minimum of 85% of the sessions.
- Their program fees is paid up to date at the time of filing patent application.
An attorney might charge something between $15,000 – $20,000 for filing a patent application, depending on the complexity of the system to be patented. One patent application per team (of 8-12 members) might be offered COMPLIMENTARY by DiscoverSTEM after evaluating that team came up with a patentable innovation. We use our internal or third-party resources we choose at our discretion to file patents, and our responsibility ceases once we apply for a patent with USPTO. Filing of a complimentary patent application is solely at our discretion.
The patent is granted by respective patent offices of different countries and DiscoverSTEM has no control in the grant of the patent. The grant, therefore, is not guaranteed by DiscoverSTEM. Our responsibility ceases once we apply for a patent.
We will be filing ONE complimentary patent application with USPTO per team of 8-12 students only. In this application, each team member and mentor/s are named as co-inventor, based on their contribution. As per the US patent laws, if a child does not contribute to innovation/patent claims satisfactorily, his/her name will not be added to patent application as a co-inventor. We take team member’s input and our observation to make this decision. Participation in the program does NOT guarantee a name in patent application as a co-inventor.
All patents are to be assigned to Innowaytors LLC or its partners or its subsidiaries or any other entity we decide. In case any innovation is commercialized, team members may be offered 2% royalty on revenue (earned through direct commercialization, royalty or any other means), to be equally distributed by the entire team. This royalty lasts for a lifetime of innovation in the market (as long as it is generating revenue for us). In case of any contradictions, the terms agreed on the ‘Intellectual Property Assignment Agreement’ shall prevail.
Tuition, Fees, and Scholarship
We’ve different programs ranging from $1,000/- to $7,500/year.
Our non-profit arm DiscoverSTEM Foundation normally sponsors 10% – 100% fees for kids whose parents’ combined income is less than $65,000/year or having any other special circumstances. Kids of serving or ex-Police and US Armed Forces officers are ALWAYS offered 100% scholarship, irrespective of parent’s family income, with a cap of 3% of our total intake in each program.
The program fees cover only the program cost. If your child’s team comes up with a patentable innovation, at our discretion, we may file a COMPLIMENTARY patent application.
