To foster intellectual property (IP) awareness from an early age, TIPO took part in the station activities of the 2026 Taiwan Science Train for the first time this year. Guided by the theme “The Train May Stop, but Invention Never Does,” TIPO set up a science booth, the “Spin Challenge,” at Kaohsiung Station on October 21, 2026. The booth combined fun challenge games with hands-on patent craft activities, allowing schoolchildren to learn about IP through play and practice. Children went from understanding creativity and respecting creative works to putting ideas into practice, sowing the seeds of future innovation.

Partnering with the National Science and Technology Museum (NSTM), TIPO drew on everyday life to weave knowledge of patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets into the challenge questions. The activities guided children to identify different types of IP, understand how creative ideas and R&D results are protected, and learn to respect the creations and intellectual achievements of others. In this way, abstract concepts became learning experiences close to daily life.

Through such edutainment activities, TIPO hopes to bring IP knowledge into children’s everyday lives, raise their awareness, and make IP education more relevant to daily life and more widely accessible.

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