Northwest Invention Center

www.invention-center.com

Northwest
Invention
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Workshops and training

  • Innovation Works! - One and two day workshops focused on improving the innovation climate. Teams work together in a variety of fun, fast-paced activities to learn how to work creatively. Compared to workshops offered by others, Innovation Works! is the most kinetic and dynamic, with strongly positive participant ratings.
  • Creativity - The Future of Education and Learning. Unleash your creativity and watch your students excel. You can teach less and be more effective in helping your students learn by applying the principles of Creative Learning.™ Teaching should focus on student learning, not on forcing rote memorization of facts. Students in the 21st century must be able to apply their learning to solve problems in the business, civic, and academic worlds, and they need to learn in a creative, problem-solving atmosphere to prepare them. Teaching creatively establishes classroom environments in which creative thinking, research, and learning flourish.
  • Inventing to Learn - Students discover the mandated science content while they engage in inquiry in a quest to invent toys. They work in small teams to solve problems, collect data, and report results. Students are actively engaged from the first minute and are totally motivated to perfect their inventions.
  • Igniting Creativity! - Discover how you are creative and how to unleash that inner creativity in this one-day workshop. Everyone has creative talents and this workshop uncovers them and nurtures them.

 

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.