Inventors Today, Engineers Tomorrow: UConn Hosts Connecticut Invention Convention
27.01.09
Last fall, hundreds of children in Connecticut looked at problems in the world around them and thought, “I bet we can make this better.”
So they began analyzing problems and refining ideas, sometimes meeting with failure, but often finding success. On Saturday, 606 young inventors brought their ideas to Gampel Pavilion in Storrs for the 28th annual Connecticut Invention Convention, hosted by UConn’s School of Engineering.
“Six hundred and six different problems, six hundred and six different solutions,” said a 164-year-old Thomas Edison, portrayed by impersonator Patrick Garner.
Emmett Christenson, a third grader from Southeast Elementary School in Mansfield, had a problem with the vibrations from the washing machine keeping him awake at night.
His solution?
A large block of concrete on top of the washing machine that “cancels the vibrations on the washing machine by vibration at the same frequency as the washing machine during the spin cycle,” Emmett said.
Source: Patch.com