{"id":12773,"date":"2018-02-07T13:09:52","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T21:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/?p=12773"},"modified":"2018-02-07T13:09:52","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T21:09:52","slug":"2018-inventors-challenge-invites-youth-creativity-and-problem-solving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/2018-inventors-challenge-invites-youth-creativity-and-problem-solving\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 Inventor&#8217;s Challenge Invites Youth Creativity and Problem-Solving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you know a budding young builder, maker or scientist? Encourage them to submit their best and brightest ideas for this year\u2019s <a href='http:\/\/imagination.org\/inventors-challenge\/' target='_blank'>Inventor\u2019s Challenge<\/a>. The month-long challenge is underway and closes February 28.<\/p>\n<p>The Inventor\u2019s Challenge is designed to provide an opportunity for kids, both in and outside of school, to engage in a creative process that both fosters 21st century skills and is rewarding and fun.<\/p>\n<p>Through the Inventor\u2019s Challenge, we\u2019ve watched children make their vision come to life and embrace their entrepreneurial side. Kids are challenged to find a problem they want to solve in their home, school, or community, invent something to solve it, and make a video sharing their invention with the world!<\/p>\n<p>Creations have included a device that detects excessive stress on structures and alerts emergency services, \u201csky shoes\u201d to help people reach those way-too-high items and a mobile app designed to help individuals with disabilities navigate their community.<\/p>\n<p>Students can submit videos demonstrating and explaining their invention for the contest portion of the Challenge, which will award prizes in four age categories to the inventions demonstrating the most originality, usefulness, and creativity of design and presentation. <\/p>\n<p>Read the full rules and register for the Challenge at <a href='http:\/\/imagination.org\/inventors-challenge\/' target='_blank'>Imagination.org<\/a>, and while you\u2019re there, check out <a href='https:\/\/imagination.live\/announcing-the-winners-of-the-2017-inventors-challenge-a6586156727f' target='_blank'>last year\u2019s winners<\/a>, or <a href='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLvGciVAG6LQoTvkvNxjpqLcWdFBqsus38' target='_blank'>all of the 2017 entires<\/a>. Happy inventing!<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you know a budding young builder, maker or scientist? Encourage them to submit their best and brightest ideas for this year\u2019s Inventor\u2019s Challenge, happening until February 28th<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":12774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[358],"tags":[667,128],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12775,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12773\/revisions\/12775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}