Remote Learning for Young Inventors
With all us us staying home and staying safe, we want to help you keep inventing!
Our YIP@HOME activities provide short videos with our staff and our inventive friends to walk you through a piece of our Young Inventors’ Program that let’s you invent and learn a bit about STEM too!
Invent with us at home!
Once you complete an activity, share your design, creativity, and/or what you learned along the way. You can email us or tag us on social media at: @fuelthespark.
Engineer a Peep Parachute This YIP@HOME Challenge is all about testing and playing around with things that don’t work. It’s also about realizing that an experiment that doesn’t work the way you thought it would isn’t really a failure. For this activity, you will test and re-test your engineering and design skills as you design…
Read MoreHow do you brainstorm new ideas? Learn how inventors come up with new ideas using the S.C.A.M.P.E.R. brainstorming technique. Each letter stands for a way to rethink or think up ideas for your design. Watch Tina White, Director of the Young Inventors’ Program and her friend Thomas use S.C.A.M.P.E.R. to design cool kitchen tools.…
Read MoreHow would you build a better pencil? Join Tina White, Director of the Young Inventors’ Program, and her friend Thomas as they explore ways to build a better pencil and challenge YOU to make one of your own. Tina will also share the invention story for Coca Cola. See below for lesson plan and materials.…
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