Toy Challenge Inventor's Workshop
Toys are a great way to learn about science, engineering, and the design process! As learners create a toy or game, they experience engineering as a fun, creative, collaborative process, relevant to everyday life. This course will introduce the engineering design process from start-to-finish by studying the process at toymaker Hasbro and will al...
Toys are a great way to learn about science, engineering, and the design process! As learners create a toy or game, they experience engineering as a fun, creative, collaborative process, relevant to everyday life. This course will introduce the engineering design process from start-to-finish by studying the process at toymaker Hasbro and will allow students to develop and build a new toy or game of their own.
Participation in the TOYchallenge competition results in a lot of "self-learning" - students learn things that they need to know on their own, skills that they don't always learn in school. When they form their own plans and come to their own conclusions, students not only retain what they've learned better, but they also feel more empowered, motivated and fulfilled. They learn skills they will use for the rest of their lives, whatever they choose to do as a career: imagination and collaboration skills are as important as engineering ideas.
When
January 08, 2009 - March 11, 2009
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Type
- 1:1 / Private Lessons,
- Class / Group Sessions
Skill level
All difficulty levels
Ages
All ages
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"Really empowering for my daughter"
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- Barbara Smythe
- Portland, OR
Review of Portland Wiz Kids, April 08, 2009
My daughter participated in a "Gateway to Engineering for Girls" class and came home with the greatest collection of fun, GIRLY stuff that she built in class, from a light-up necklace, to a bouncing stuffed animal. The girls developed a great understanding of how everything worked and could explain it very clearly. Sensing no limits, she later went on to participate on a couple of fun and successful middle school teams (one of them through Portland Wiz Kids), in engineering-related competitions, including FIRST Lego League and the Sally Ride Science Foundation's Inventor's Toy Challenge. What a great introduction to technology and engineering.
My daughter participated in a "Gateway to Engineering for Girls" class and came home with the greatest collection of fun, GIRLY stuff that she built in class, from a light-up necklace, to a bouncing stuffed animal. The girls developed a great understanding of how everything worked and could explain it very clearly. Sensing no limits, she later went on to participate on a couple of fun and succ...
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Portland Wiz Kids offers programs for kids in engineering, inventing, and creative problem solving at various loca...
Portland Wiz Kids offers programs for kids in engineering, inventing, and creative problem solving at various locations throughout the Portland Metro area. Each program is developed as a way to introduce kids to the process of design and creativity in technology, with a balance of scientific theory and creative freedom to apply what is learned in a new way - truly the essence of invention.
Kids these days have many opportunities to interract with science and technology, but often it is a one-way interaction, with someone or something communicating to them, whether a teacher, a website, or a game. Portland Wiz Kids programs are developed on the basis of action learning, which uses experiential activities to teach the engineering and creative processes, whether it is designing a robot, programming a new computer game, creating a solar car, or inventing a new toy or game. Kids learn how to create something new, while having fun doing it.
Innovation comes from people who are not afraid of solving problems; who see obstacles as opportunity to make the world a better place. Portland Wiz Kids programs are designed for kids who want to learn how to use engineering or inventing to create new solutions to problems. They are designed for kids who love math and science and as well as those who don't! Each program offers participants a new way of looking at the technology they interact with on a daily basis - from a designer's point of view, rather than simply as a user.
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Village Home Education Resource Center
