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ABOUT KI!® ACTIVITIES
Kids Invent! is the world's leading provider of
innovation based learning activities that stimulate the
creative interests and abilities of children ages 7- 15. We
develop, publish and distribute learning activities for
after school, in school, home school, summer, holiday and
vacation camps, museum workshops, clubs and special event
programs.
Kids Invent! Learning Activities foster learning
experiences that are as engrossing and entertaining as they
are educational. To achieve this unique blend of education,
invention, and entrepreneurship Kids Invent! has adopted the
learning model used by Thomas Edison and thousands of other
inventors, and applied it to learning for kids.
Professors Ed Sobey and Timothy M. Stearns developed the
first kids invent summer camp as an outreach program for
California State University, Fresno, California. Their goal
was to stimulate learning by having kids experience the
creative and entrepreneurial excitement that drives
inventors. Interest at other universities, science museums,
and schools throughout the US led them to expand the
curriculum and distribute it through a company, Kids Invent!
Kids Invent! learning activities stimulate the creative
abilities of children by having them design and build
projects that involve solving of science and engineering
problems, preparing simple business plans, and developing
presentation materials. As they develop their projects, kids
learn to present their concepts to other students,
demonstrate their ideas, and think through the practical
issues of design, performance, and functionality. With KI!
Learning Activities, kids may also address the issues of
market pricing, and manufacturing cost of their concept. All
KI! Learning Activities emphasize important principles in
math and science while fostering the development of social
skills that help kids learn to work with other kids in a
variety of tasks.
Kids Invent! approach to learning is a more engaging and
natural way for kids to learn math, science, invention and
the process of transforming abstract ideas into tangible
things. Through the inventing experience inherent in Kids
Invent! Learning Activities, kids are faced with practical
problems which they learn to solve through observations,
thinking, and experimentation. As part of that process, they
also learn how to use tools and materials, how to manage
time and work with others.
Kids Invent! encourages kids to continue applying their
creative talents long after the conclusion of the learning
activity. Kids take pleasure seeing their own ideas and
designs work and so are motivated to keep working on their
inventions long after class is over.
Kids Invent! is a unique learning program because:
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Kids learn math, science, creativity, and
entrepreneurship.
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Kids learn about the invention process so they may
continue to invent even after the conclusion of a Kids
Invent! Learning Activity.
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Kids work as a team to invent and develop their
concepts.
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Kids Invent! promotes life long learning and
creativity, and builds skills that will help them
succeed.
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Kids Invent! learning activities meets many of the
California and US Science Standards!
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Kids love the creativity-based, hands-on learning
and gladly engage in the challenges of inventing
everything from robots to radios.
Richard Feynman said, "What I cannot
create, I do not understand." At Kids Invent!, kids create
and, in the process, they understand. |
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