Leigh Estabrooks joined the Lemelson-MIT Program (LMIT) in 2006 and became the Invention Education Officer in 2008. She joined the program, administered by MIT’s School of Engineering, after six years of teaching entrepreneurship and small business management at a vocational technical high school. Earlier, years of work in new product development at Fortune 500 consumer products companies formed her keen interest in intellectual property. These two careers merged to complement her work with young inventors. Always a mentor, Leigh coached others in corporate laboratories, in classrooms, and now through invention education. She relishes time spent as a mentor. Her passion project, InvenTeams®, has been rife with mentoring opportunities. The national high school InvenTeams initiative was nascent when Leigh joined LMIT. Almost 300 teams, 4,000 students, and 17 U.S. patents later, Leigh eagerly shares the storied lives of teachers and students in tribute to their families, schools, and communities. The inventors’ work illuminates possibilities in STEM education, especially with young women—historically underrepresented among those who protect their intellectual property. Leigh co-presents with teachers at state and national conferences such as Educating for Careers, Association for Career and Technical Education, and InventEd, as well as at LMIT and United States Patent and Trademark Office professional development opportunities for teachers. Leigh earned a B.S. in agriculture from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, an M.S. in business from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and her Ed.D. from Northeastern University. Her dissertation, Enacting Cutting-Edge Practices in High School STEM Education, studied female teachers and their outcomes with young inventors.