What Do I Need to Do to Participate in the Invention Convention? 1. Pass in the intent to invent sheet. 2. Make an invention. 3. Make a display of your invention. 4. Keep a log of the work you do on your invention. Clark – Wilkins School New Hampshire Young Inventors’ Program New
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What Do I Need to Do to Participate in the
Invention Convention?
1. Pass in the intent to invent sheet.
2. Make an invention.
3. Make a display of your invention.
4. Keep a log of the work you do on
your invention.
Clark – Wilkins School New Hampshire Young Inventors’ Program
New
New Hampshire Young Inventors’ Program
Dear Families,
Your child is about to participate in an exciting after-school project - the New Hampshire Young Inventors’ Program. It is a special program designed to help learn and apply problem solving skills.
Your involvement in this project is strongly encouraged; however, it is important that the invention ideas, illustrations, and descriptions are your child’s own. Parents are invited to assist children in making the invention model since the inventions will be judged on the child’s ideas, not on the model.
The greatest support you can offer is your enthusiastic interest in your child’s own unique ideas. Encourage perseverance! Remind your son or daughter that invention is a process of trial and error experienced by all great inventors, and well worth the effort.
Have fun with your child and the New Hampshire Young Inventors’ Program, and remember that every child who creates an invention is a winner!
Sincerely, Kathleen McIntyre New Hampshire Young Inventors’ Program Coordinator
Young Inventors’ Timeline
1. Keep a log from the moment you have the idea to the day you make the model. Date: Write the date in your log the day you have the idea.
2. You should have an invention idea! Date: Record date
3. Name your invention. Date: Record date.
4. Intent to invent sheet is due! If you turn in this sheet, you must participate in the Invention Convention.
Date: Tuesday, February 3, 2015 Time: Any time during the school day Place: Library – Mrs. McIntyre or Mrs. Messner
5. Invention model should be completed. Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2015
6. Display should be completed. Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2015
7. Invention set-up time! Invention set-up is in the Wilkins School cafeteria. Your set-up must include the invention, the log, and the display board.
Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 Time: 3:30 – 6:00 Place: Wilkins School Cafeteria
8. Invention Convention judging will take place. Be sure to stand next to your invention so the judges can ask you questions about your invention. You will also want to hear all the nice compliments!
Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 Time: 6:15-7:30 Place: Wilkins School Cafeteria
9. New Hampshire Young Inventors’ Award Ceremony. Everyone is a winner! Each student will receive a certificate of participation. Each grade level will have a first and second place winner for the general category and the “Inventions for the School Classroom” category. All first place winners will participate in March at the New Hampshire Inventors’ Program at Merrimack Valley High School in Penacook, NH.
Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 Time: 7:45-8:30 Place: Wilkins School Cafeteria
All inventions of Wilkins students will be left in the cafeteria on Tuesday evening. They will be on display on Wednesday for all classes to visit. Clark School students will take their inventions to Clark School on Wednesday to be displayed there.
10. All inventions need to be taken home Wednesday afternoon or Thursday.
*** PLEASE NOTE-Snow Date for the Invention Convention 2015***
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2015
INVENTION CATEGORIES
1. General Invention-Any invention for school, home, entertainment, pet
needs, clothing and more that is not an “Invention for the School
Named for the ingredients: Corn Flakes, steel-belted radials, ice-
cream, peanut butter, soap suds
Names with initials or acronyms: Laser, VCR, SST, CD, SCUBA,
RAM
Named for its function – the way it works: sunglasses, doghouse,
squirt gun, Post-it Notes
Names with funny and clever words: Silly Putty, Cool Whip, flip-
flops
Illustration of
Invention
Invention Name
Simple directions on how to use your
invention
How to Make a Display
Your display will be on a table in back of or beside your invention. Make
sure your display is stable. A good material to use is a cardboard box. Cover
the cardboard with paper or contact paper. Another idea is to use two poster
boards taped together at the center. Display boards can also be purchased at
craft stores.
Your display should have the following information on it:
Questions a Judge Might Ask You
1. How did you get the idea for your invention?
2. What need or problem does your invention solve?
3. Why do you think it’s new and original?
4. How does it work?
5. How did you make it?
6. Did you keep a log?
7. May I see your log?
8. What was the biggest problem you faced while working on your
invention?
9. Did you have to change your original idea in any way?
10. What did you do to make sure that your invention
was original?
A teacher or parent may assist the child by writing or typing the words.
Ideas and content, however, must be the child’s own.
Special Awards
The Joshua Savyon Team Award~
This award lovingly honors and remembers the creativity, inventive spirit, and team enthusiasm of Joshua Savyon. One team will be chosen to receive this award.
S.T.E.A.M. Award~
This is a new award for 2015. The Young Inventors’ Program continues to highlight the importance of science, engineering, and mathematics with the addition of the technology and the arts components. This new award will be selected by the judges as the invention that best couples science, technology, engineering, and mathematics with the arts.