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The National Inventors Hall of Fame® (NIHF) is a dynamic nonprofit organization offering employees, interns and volunteers the opportunity to create a more innovative future. Our mission is recognizing inventors and invention, promoting creativity and advancing the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship. We honor the world’s greatest inventors through the NIHF Museum and Induction events, reward emerging inventors through the Collegiate Inventors Competition®, and empower and inspire the next generation of innovators through education programs including Camp Invention®. Since 1973 we have encouraged more than two million people to explore, create and innovate. NIHF’s entrepreneurial culture rewards creativity and ambition. We also understand the value and importance, both professionally and personally, of providing our employees with a comprehensive benefits package, including health benefits, retirement savings, professional development opportunities and more.

MindWare is an award-winning creator and manufacturer of Brainy Toys for Kids of All Ages. Our diverse product line includes educational games, brain teasers, creative play activities, building sets, coloring books and more! MindWare was founded in 1990 with a small retail store in the Uptown area of Minneapolis. From there, the company evolved into a direct mail order catalog and a wholesale division. Over the years, MindWare has been dedicated to developing its own line of products that were initially offered exclusively in the MindWare catalog. In 2001, after countless requests from retail stores, MindWare started offering its line of proprietary products to retailers. Our commitment to developing new products for the specialty toy and education market is unwavering and MindWare is proud to collaborate with the most respected inventors, designers and toy specialists from around the world. MindWare products have won awards from prestigious institutions such as Spiel des Jahres, Mensa, Major Fun, Parents' Choice, Good Housekeeping, NAGC, NAPPA and Disney FamilyFun.

Tinkergarten helps families get outside to make the most of their kids’ early learning years. Designed by education experts and loved by busy families throughout the United States, our play-based outdoor curriculum guides parents in raising healthy, confident, and capable kids. Through instructor-led and do-it-yourself programming that spans all four seasons, Tinkergarten makes purposeful outdoor play doable for every family—rain or shine.