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The Yale Club of Hartford invites you to join over 350 engineers, scientists, academics, entrepreneurs, and legal professionals who will judge student inventions and inspire young minds to pursue science and engineering.  We have a unique opportunity to sponsor and judge the regional virtual event of hundreds of Connecticut student inventors who have prepared to demonstrate their achievement in creative and critical thinking skills and their active role as inventors. 

The Yale Club of Hartford will select three inventors, representing an elementary, a middle, and a high school level.  The three Yale Club awards will be presented during an in-person finals event on Saturday, June 8th at Gampel Pavilion on the campus of University of Connecticut.

Please consider volunteering some time to support our young inventors and/or sharing this invitation with any friends or colleagues who may want to judge!

Upcoming Events:

• Connecticut State Semi-Finals:  April 5th-19th, Asynchronous Virtual Judging - Judge from Anywhere!
• Connecticut State Finals:  Saturday, June 8th 2024, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

These registration forms are managed by the Connecticut Invention Convention team.  If you decide to register as a judge, please note “Yale Club of Hartford” in the field for Employer.  

Once you have registered, please e-mail Club of Hartford Vice President Katherine McCormack so we can include you on Team Yale Club of Hartford and keep you connected with other Club members who will be also be serving as judges, and also enter you onto the list for Yale Day of Service!

Thank you for supporting student innovation!

Contact: Katherine McCormack '81 MPH

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Join us for a robust conversation with Dr. Patricia Nez Henderson '94 MPH, '00 MD, and Karen Green '78 from YASC to learn more about the Navajo Nation. The Navajo Nation has approximately 417,671 members and is the most populous tribe in the United States. Although approximately 173,637 members reside in Diné Bikéyah or Navajoland, a more than equal number of members reside in bordering towns, as well as urban and other areas around the U.S. Consisting of  more than 27,000 square miles in the states of Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado, the Navajo Nation land base is the largest Native American reservation in the U.S.  It's land base is greater than the states of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont combined and larger than 10 states. 

During this session, Dr. Henderson, who is the first American Indian woman to graduate from Yale School of Medicine, will discuss issues the Navajo Nation is addressing with a focus on health policy and advocacy, including smoking cessation programs and legislation, taxation of tobacco products, the role of traditional healers in the development of these health policies and the impact these health policies are having on the Navajo Nation. We will also discuss the potential to organize a YASC service program in the future, which builds on the visit by the YASC Advisory Board to the Navajo Nation in June 2023. Karen, a YASC Board Member and the trip producer of YASC’s 2024 service trip to the Fort Mojave Indian Tribe, will moderate the discussion.

This is a great opportunity to learn more about the Navajo Nation, ask questions, and get involved.

This event will be recorded.

The concept of the creative economy is rooted in the interplay between human creativity, knowledge, and technology. Today, the creative industries—including engineering, design, music, architecture, visual art, and digital media—are among the most dynamic sectors in the global economy. When creators and innovators are empowered to build and scale enterprises around their creative and technical intellectual property, what results are ecosystems that maximize societal impact and economic justice.

Join us for a wide-ranging exploration of how Yale faculty and alumni are working to leverage the full scope of creative and technological activity to drive innovation, strengthen communities, and develop the next generation of leaders.