Northwest Invention Center

www.invention-center.com

Northwest
Invention
Center

Ed Sobey

 

Creativity is key

Innovation is the focal point for success in business and education today. We help people access and express their creative ideas, and help teams to be more effective at innovating solutions to problems. We also help educators teach more effectively with less effort by empowering creativity and innovation in the classroom.

 

We lead the fields of inventing to energize learning and kinetic ideation and innovation. We provide highly active workshops in innovation and inventive learning; traveling exhibits for museums in creativity and invention; and inventing curriculum and learning activities.

 

If you want to succeed in today’s creative era, give us a shout.

Toy Tech exhibit

The Heritage Hjemkomst Interpretive Center in Moorhead, MN opened Toy Tech on April 7. The exhibit continues through June 23. The European version of Toy Tech is now at the Agder Naturmuseum in Norway. The Northwest Invention Center is working with the Tekniska Museet in Stockholm to circulate this exhibit.

Book on toys

The Way Toys Work was recently published by Chicago Review Press. Ed and his son Woody wrote this book that details the history and technology of fun toys and shows how to make simple home versions of many of them. This is Ed’s 20th published book.

Robot Rodeo Exhibit

The Arkansas Museum of Discovery will host the Robot Rodeo exhibit from May 1 through August 1.