Wednesday, June 8, 2005 | ||
Bad Links? | Young inventors earn national awardsWish you had a portable microwave to take with you wherever you go? Or maybe a CD player that shows the name of a song or a device that would keep those pesky deer away from your garden? Some inventive students at Huddleston Elementary had an idea for such devices and have been awarded honorable mention prizes for their efforts from ExploraVision. ExploraVision is a competition for students in grades K-12 designed to encourage them to combine their imagination with their knowledge of science and technology to explore visions of the future. The 2005 ExploraVision winning teams from Huddleston include the inventors of the portable microwave called the Microbox. The inventors are fourth graders John Britt, Doug Learnard, Daniel Griffin and Ryan Lloyd. Fifth graders Amy Thornburg, Courtney Stone and Kurtis Smithley developed the CDID, a device that shows the name of a song playing on a CD. Another group of fifth graders came up with an idea called Deer Disappear to keep deer away from yards and gardens. The inventors are Laurel Clarke, Sam Schuler, Larissa Romanow and Torey Weatherford. Teams participating in the competition select a technology, research how it works and why it was invented, then project how that technology may change in the future. They must identify what breakthroughs are required for their vision to become a reality and describe the positive and negative consequences of their technology on society. In addition, students write a paper and draw a series of web page graphics to describe their idea. Congratulations to these students whose products faced stiff competition from thousands of entries across the nation, said enrichment teacher Adele Moore. |
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