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How to Be an Inventor

How to Be an Inventor. Instructor: Drew Boyd. Week 1. 1. What We Are Going to Learn. Five Tools to Create New Inventions Famous Inventors Patents How to Use a Lab Book. 2. How Do People Invent Things?. Find a problem…. 3. How Do People Invent Things?. Find a problem… then….

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How to Be an Inventor

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  1. How to Be an Inventor • Instructor: Drew Boyd Week 1 1

  2. What We Are Going to Learn • Five Tools to Create New Inventions • Famous Inventors • Patents • How to Use a Lab Book 2

  3. How Do People Invent Things? • Find a problem… 3

  4. How Do People Invent Things? • Find a problem… • then….. 4

  5. How Do People Invent Things? • Find a problem… • then….. • Find a Solution 5

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  7. What are the parts of a TV? 7

  8. What are the parts of a TV? • Screen 8

  9. What are the parts of a TV? • Screen • Remote Control • Volume • Channel • Speaker • Box • Plug 9

  10. You now have a “virtual TV” 10

  11. You now have a “virtual TV” Who would use a “screenless” TV? 11

  12. First Tool: Reduction • Find a product • List all of its parts • Take a part away • Imagine your “Virtual Product” • Ask, “Who would use this?” 12

  13. Kids Can Be Inventors! • Kathryn Gregory • Age 10 • Invented the “Wristies” • Kids Hall of Fame in 1997 13

  14. Your Lab Book • Always write down your ideas in the LAB BOOK. • For each idea: • Date • Name of the idea • Describe the idea • Tell how you got the idea • Draw a picture of the idea • List the parts • Sign your name • Always write in ink, not pencil 14

  15. Next Week • Bring in a small toy or other product from home. • We will practice REDUCTION. • We will learn another tool. 15

  16. How to Be an Inventor • Instructor: Drew Boyd Week 2 16

  17. Why are you taking this class? 17

  18. Why are you taking this class? 18

  19. Review • The right way to invent: find solutions, then find problems • First Tool: Reduction • How to Use a Lab Book 19

  20. How Do People Invent Things? • Find a problem… 20

  21. How Do People Invent Things? • Find a problem… • then….. 21

  22. How Do People Invent Things? • Find a problem… • then….. • Find a Solution 22

  23. How Do People Invent Things? • Find a problem… • then….. • Find a Solution This is backwards!!! 23

  24. Pencil Sharpener 24

  25. What are the parts of a TV? 25

  26. What are the parts of a TV? • Screen • Remote Control • Volume • Channel • Speaker • Box • Plug 26

  27. Reduce by taking away the screen Who would use a “screenless” TV? 27

  28. First Tool: Reduction • Find a product • List all of its parts • Take a part away • Imagine your “Virtual Product” • Ask, “Who would use this?” 28

  29. Second Tool: Replacement • Find a product and list all of its parts • Take a part away • REPLACE the part with something else • Imagine your “Virtual Product” • Ask, “Who would use this?” 29

  30. Famous Inventors • K.K. Gregory • Ben Franklin • Thomas Edison • Alexander Graham Bell 30

  31. Kids Can Be Inventors! • Kathryn Gregory • Age 10 • Invented the “Wristies” • Kids Hall of Fame in 1997 31

  32. Ben Franklin • Bifocal glasses • Lightening rod • Franklin stove • Many more! 32

  33. Walt Disney • Multiplane camera 33

  34. Your Lab Book • Always write down your ideas in the LAB BOOK. • For each idea: • Date • Name of the idea • Describe the idea • Tell how you got the idea • Draw a picture of the idea • List the parts • Sign your name • Always write in ink, not pencil 34

  35. How to Be an Inventor • Instructor: Drew Boyd Week 3 35

  36. What does it take to be an Inventor? • Smart? Creative? 36

  37. What does it take to be an Inventor? • Smart? Creative? No!!! 37

  38. What does it take to be an Inventor? • Smart? Creative? No!!! • You need to be: • Observant • Curious • Disciplined • Persistent • Question asker • See possibilities 38

  39. Agenda • Review • Second Tool: Replacement • Lab Books • Third Tool: Multiplication • Introduction to PATENTS 39

  40. How Do People Invent Things? • Find a Solution… 40

  41. How Do People Invent Things? • Find a Solution… • then….. 41

  42. How Do People Invent Things? • Find a Solution… • then….. • Find a Problem 42

  43. Don’t Invent Things Like This! 43

  44. Review Lab Books • Who has an idea or an invention from their Lab Book that they want to share? 44

  45. Second Tool: Replacement • Find a product and list all of its parts • Take a part away • REPLACE the part with something else • Imagine your “Virtual Product” • Ask, “Who would use this?” 45

  46. Take away the screen… • Screen • Remote Control • Volume • Channel • Speaker • Box • Plug 46

  47. And REPLACE it with what? • Computer screen • Projector • Head mounted 47

  48. Examples • Stapler “Tape-ler” • Ice Skate Roller Blade • Coke Can Twist Top Can • Phone Cradle Belt Phone 48

  49. Third Tool: Multiplication • Find a product and list all of its parts • Multiply, or create a copy of one of the parts • Change the multiplied component in some way • Imagine your “Virtual Product” • Ask, “Who would use this?” 49

  50. Example: Multiply a Part 50

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