Saratoga’s Responce: Can innovation be taught?
As they say, necessity is the mother of invention. If a person is placed in a situation where they are faced with a problem and forced to create a solution a person will almost always overcome. Innovation is not something you can teach but more so is something that can be fostered. The skill that a person applies to creating their invention or modification can be taught in a class room but being inventive is a core part of every one of us.
We were fortunate enough to hear Mrs. Lemelson speak about how our free-market and democratic society enables us as Americans to achieve anything we can imagine. The world we as Americans are being raised in gives us the opportunity to be anything we want to be and do anything we want to do as long as we are hard working and confident.
Innovation is not something that can be taught but is a side effect of the society and environment we are lucky enough to be living in today.
- Elliott
Elliott Poppel
Project Manager
Saratoga Springs HS InvenTeam 2008