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UNIVA Briefing: Humanitarian Engineering Student Organizations and Project Conceptualization

Authored by: Miriam Castillo and Megan Cadena Public Invention is a non-profit organization located in Austin, Texas, USA. It was formed in 2016 through the vision and philosophy of Robert L. Read (PhD) who is the founder and leader of invention projects. Why is there a Public Invention? Born from a child whose books, comics […]

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UNIVA documento informativo: Organizaciones Estudiantiles de Ingeniería Humanitaria y Conceptualización de Proyectos

Escrito por: Miriam Castillo y Megan Cadena Public Invention es una organizacion sin fines de lucro localizada en Austin, Texas, USA. La cual se forma en 2016 a traves de la visión y filosofia de PHD Robert L. Read quien es el fundador y lider de proyectos de invención. ¿Por qué existe Public Invention? Nace

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Impact of VentMon in India, from Taurus Medical Corporation

The VentMon Project in India Since its inception, we have known that VentMon has the capacity to save lives. We are excited to report that we’ve received tangible proof of this from Ajit Lahori and his team from Taurus Medical Corporation in India. After sending Ajit Lahori a VentMon, Public Invention received this testimonial highlighting

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Catch Robert Read on the Fashionably Late Podcast!

This past week, Public Invention President Robert L. Read was featured on the Fashionably Late podcast. Robert Read – Journey to Public Invention In it, Rob talks about his journey from computer programmer to Presidential Innovation Fellow to founder and president of Public Invention. He discusses feeling unfulfilled in his corporate job and how his

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Summary of PubInvCon 2021: Work to Be Done and Awards

On January 9, 2021, Public Invention hosted our virtual “year in review” conference titled PubInvCon 2021: Work To Be Done. The conference was a coming together of dedicated inventors, volunteers, scientists, students, and more interested in humanitarian inventing “in the public, for the public.” We discussed our successes of 2020 and outlined the hard work

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A Summary of Activity by Public Invention Supported by Protocol Labs

Protocols Labs has been a major support for organizations such as Public Invention which have been addressing the most extraordinary health crisis of this century: the COVID-19 pandemic. The Open-Source Response to the Pandemic VentCon 2020 – Ventilator Conference Public Invention co-hosted free virtual mini-cons VentCon 2020 and VentConQA, attended by 115 and 50 people

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