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 allow students to develop and bu...
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.
This is a year round course and includes preparation of a submission to the Local and National TOYchallenge competitions in Winter. During Spring session, teams will continue to develop a prototype and presentation of their invention in order to compete in the National TOYchallenge Competition.
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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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"Extremely Knowledgeable, Talented and Eye Opening!"
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- agvivino
- Tualatin, OR
Review of Portland Wiz Kids, April 08, 2009
Diana Laboy-Rush is extremely knowledgeable and incredibly talented when it comes to teaching technology. She also has a keen ability to open the minds of her students to the exciting world of becoming inventors, innovators and engineers! I had the opportunity to watch Diana in action as she coached a team of students which included my son on their march to take the second highest award given at 2008 Sally Ride Science Toy Challenge Competition which had thousands of teams competing. This was a proud accomplishment for my son which he will forever remember and for which I will always be grateful for!
Anthony Vivino
Tualatin OregonDiana Laboy-Rush is extremely knowledgeable and incredibly talented when it comes to teaching technology. She also has a keen ability to open the minds of her students to the exciting world of becoming inventors, innovators and engineers! I had the opportunity to watch Diana in action as she coached a team of students which included my son on their march to take the second highest award given...
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