AOL Area Promotes Creativity in Kids

  • 03/01/96

America Online (AOL) announced the KidzBiz Invention Connection (KBIC), an online area that encourages kids to pursue their entrepreneurial drive and creative innovation by transforming ideas into products.

Through KBIC, students meet and work with other kids or consult with experts about brainstorming, budgeting their money and more. They can even create working models of their inventions, test-market ideas and file patents.

KidzBiz is a service of The AOL Greenhouse, a business unit that assists "infopreneurs" in creating interactive online content. GO KidzBiz. America Online, Vienna, VA, (703) 448-8700.

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