This year's Invention Convention Worldwide held at the Henry Ford in Dearborn, Mich., has concluded, but students' inventions and their stories continue on! Listen to inventor Maia De La Cruz at last year's Invention Convention explain her device to make moving hay easier for farmers who must stack hay in barns for storage.
De La Cruz's invention, the "Farmer's Friend," automates and speeds up this process by picking up the hay. She explains how the invention works and how important perseverance was to creating it. Check out how your students can get involved here.
Interested in being part of the Invention Education community? Write Vic at vpasquantonio@newshour.org to hear about NewsHour Classroom's Invention Teacher Fellowship, opportunities to write and test out curriculum and fun Zooms where you get to meet real-life inventors, teachers who've been doing invention in their classroom and want to help other teachers get into it and student inventors!
See our free invention ed lesson collection here.
This post was produced by Benjamin Thernstrom, a senior at Washington-Liberty High School in Arlington, Virginia, and intern with PBS NewsHour Classroom, and NewsHour's Vic Pasquantonio.
If you are a middle or high school student and would like to pitch a Student Voice article or video to NewsHour Classroom, contact vpasquantonio@newshour.org. Sign up for NewsHour Classroom’s ready-to-go Daily News Lessons here.
