People are welcome to RSVP to mfisher@clarkson.edu or 268-4153 if they would like to attend.

Networking and refreshments will begin at 1 p.m. in the Robert A. Plane Atrium in the Center for Advanced Materials Processing (CAMP). The building can be located in the #5 position on the campus map at http://www.clarkson.edu/about/map.html.

Sen. Gillibrand plans to arrive at 1:30 p.m. and review the “America Innovates Act.”

The event will feature exhibits by start-up businesses, including those launched by student and faculty entrepreneurs at Clarkson and other area colleges.

Attendees will gain first-hand perspectives of young entrepreneurs striving to move their best ideas into commercial enterprises that can capture sales in regional, national and international markets.

Gillibrand will focus on innovation in America and what is needed to advance scientific discoveries into marketable products and companies. Her remarks will address the “America Innovates Act” and opportunities to spur growth of high tech jobs in America by making capital available for innovators and by training students to turn their discoveries into products, companies, and jobs.