Open Door 2025 (Inventor Book List): Home
Introduction
Welcome to a specially curated list of children's books celebrating invention, innovation and the creative spirit. This collection is inspired by the opening of the Patent and Trademark Resource Center, and its mission to inspire the next generation of inventors and innovators during our 2025 Open Door event. These titles demonstrate the patent and innovations process through engaging stories of real inventors who transformed their ideas into reality. From George Washington Carver's agricultural innovations to Temple Grandin's groundbreaking designs, each book shows how creative thinking leads patentable innovations that solve real-world problems.[Optional] Supporting ASU's Innovation Mission:
This list aligns with ASU Library's Patent and Trademark Resource Center's goals of:
- Introducing young people to the patent process
- Demonstrating how ideas become protected inventions
- Showcasing the diversity of American inventors
- Connecting invention to STEM education
- Inspiring the next generation of Arizona inventors
Join us and collect some of the US Patent and Trademark Office Inventor Trading Cards.
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The ASU Library acknowledges the twenty-two Native Nations that have inhabited this land for centuries. Arizona State University's four campuses are located in the Salt River Valley on ancestral territories of Indigenous peoples, including the Akimel O’odham (Pima) and Pee Posh (Maricopa) Indian Communities, whose care and keeping of these lands allows us to be here today. ASU Library acknowledges the sovereignty of these nations and seeks to foster an environment of success and possibility for Native American students and patrons. We are advocates for the incorporation of Indigenous knowledge systems and research methodologies within contemporary library practice. ASU Library welcomes members of the Akimel O’odham and Pee Posh, and all Native nations to the Library.
The ASU Library acknowledges the twenty-three Native Nations that have inhabited this land for centuries. Arizona State University's four campuses are located in the Salt River Valley on ancestral territories of Indigenous peoples, including the Akimel O’odham (Pima) and Pee Posh (Maricopa) Indian Communities, whose care and keeping of these lands allows us to be here today. ASU Library acknowledges the sovereignty of these nations and seeks to foster an environment of success and possibility for Native American students and patrons. We are advocates for the incorporation of Indigenous knowledge systems and research methodologies within contemporary library practice. ASU Library welcomes members of the Akimel O’odham and Pee Posh, and all Native nations to the Library.
