USPTO For Kids
Welcome to the "For Kids" section of the USPTO web site. The USPTO welcomes students, educators, and young inventors and innovators of all ages.
USA Science and Engineering Festival
Visit the USPTO Booth at the 2012 USA Science & Engineering Festival, Booth #227: Activities include: “Race to the USPTO,” where participants program robots to navigate a path to the USPTO, picking up an idea, prototype and patent application along the way. Decode cipher keys to read hidden messages. Take a trip back to the start of the animated film industry by making your own animated flip books. Check out the “Intellectual Property is all around us” display and make three-dimensional cut outs of GRS the Robot Cat and T. Markey.
USPTO Trading Cards
![Forrest Bird & James West trading cards](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20120913080128im_/http://www.uspto.gov/image/west-bird.jpg)
The Inaugural Series of the USPTO Trading Cards was introduced at the USA Science and Engineering Festival. The cards feature caricatures of notable inventors and the Director of the USPTO. Visit our site often as we add new information and activities.