Episode 165 | Christine Lawlor-King | Innovation Education Consulting LLC | The Knowledge Entrepreneurs Show

Christine Lawlor-King exemplifies an educator who is both pioneering innovation and entrepreneurship learning in the classroom, and a visionary in her own right. She created her urban district’s award-winning K-12 STEM program and has been the catalyst for implementing invention education curriculum in many schools, on a national and international level. As a Yale University’s Master STEM Teacher, she introduced teachers to project-based learning centered around vector-borne diseases. She was the Education Lead on the team who created the National Invention Convention program, which serves thousands of teachers and students internationally. She was the Executive Director of the largest Invention Convention program in the world. Her current consulting roles with Lemelson-MIT, STEMisED, and The Lemelson Foundation has her inspiring more in-school and out of school educators to teach invention. Christine has mentored program leaders, young inventors, educators, administrators, and inspired corporate professionals to get involved with invention education. Her efforts earned her STEMconnector’s Community Trailblazer Award.