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Rigorous and fun are not opposites
The Modern Pet Rock with Mood Ring: a classroom project silly enough to love and rigorous enough to grade, worked through the same gates as any professional invention.
For teachers
Teaching innovation with theory and toy exercises is like teaching swimming on a chalkboard. IPGuru gives every student a real project, and gives you the rubric and the visibility to assess it fairly.
Recognize yourself?
You teach STEM, design, innovation or entrepreneurship, and the available materials are either theory or toy exercises.
You are expected to grade invention and innovation work without tools built for assessing it.
You want every student working on something real, with progress you can actually see before the deadline.
Your strongest students produce work that deserves a life after the grade is in.
What you walk away with
The FORGE method is proprietary to IPGuru: you approve the evidence at every gate, and a weak Grade loops the work back instead of letting it through.
Focus
Worked examples with the scaffolding built, from a science fair to a graduate seminar. Students invent instead of staring at blank pages.
Observe
Each student runs a real prior-art search across 250M+ patents and keeps a cited record: sources, method, conclusions.
Refine
Drawings, 3D models, short videos and documented write-ups worth presenting, in a consistent format you can compare.
Grade
Every project scored against the same rubric, the same gates professional inventions pass.
Execute
A progress view across every student project, and a path for the strongest work to continue toward a real filing or grant after the course.
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From the platform
The Modern Pet Rock with Mood Ring: a classroom project silly enough to love and rigorous enough to grade, worked through the same gates as any professional invention.
This year, notice the invention while you can still grade it.
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