South Coast Innovation Challenge Innovation Panel and InventOR Showcase, April 5

SWOCC release – Coos Bay, OR – Southwestern Oregon Community College invites you to join us in celebrating the achievements of our student inventors who participated in our campus wide Invent Oregon (InventOR) program. The showcase will be Saturday April 6, 2019 at 6:30 pm in Eden Hall Room 1 on the Coos Campus, 1988 Newmark Ave., Coos Bay.  Our 5-member student team will present the invention prototype they will be taking to statewide levels of the InventOR competition to a panel of judges from the community. In addition to the showcase, we will have a panel discussion featuring contributions from Portland State University, InventOR competition sponsors and community business leaders. The InventOR Collegiate Challenge is a statewide competition for Oregon College/University Innovators sponsored by Portland State University, The Lemelson Foundation, Business Oregon, and the Oregon Community Foundation. For more information please contact Dr. Aaron Coyner, Physics Instructor at Southwestern, at 541-888-7244.