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Encouraging Innovative Thinking

Spark!Lab Dr. InBae & Mrs. Kyung Joo Yoon Invent It Challenge

The Spark!Lab Dr. InBae & Mrs. Kyung Joo Yoon Invent It Challenge is a fun way to practice the invention process by actually creating something new that matters to the world, either by yourself or with a team of friends.

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Tinker Ball

Tinker Ball is back! Playing around with objects and ideas helps us see that there may be more than one solution.

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Design a 21st Century Farming Device

What types of farming will your device be used for? Who will use your invention?

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Create a Solar-Powered Invention

Create a solar-powered invention with virtual materials—or design your own parts and pieces.

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Design a Spacecraft

Design a spacecraft with virtual materials—or create your own parts and pieces.

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Reinvent the Shopping Cart

Reinvent a shopping cart with these virtual materials—or create your own parts and pieces.

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Create a Mass Transit Vehicle

Create a mass transit vehicle (bus, plane, boat, train, spacecraft or something totally new) with virtual materials—or create your own parts and pieces.

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Invent a Toy

Invent a new toy with virtual materials—or create your own parts and pieces.

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Help Clean Up the Ocean

Use virtual materials—or create your own parts and pieces—to build a 3D model of your invention that could help clean up the ocean.

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Invent a Device That Can Move Through a Pipe

Invent a device that can move through a pipe with these virtual materials—or create your own parts and pieces.

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Design a Stadium

Design a stadium with virtual materials—or create your own parts and pieces.

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Invent a Musical Instrument

You can invent an instrument using common items found around your house. What type of instrument will you create?

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Let’s Tell a Story!

Stories tell us how inventions came to be and what inspired the inventors.

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Design an Innovative Voting Poster

Design a poster that will encourage people to vote in every election.

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At-Home Inventors

Lots of inventors worked from home – what will you invent?

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Spark!Lab's Now What? Invention Game

Unexpected problems often call for inventive solutions.

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Spark!Lab Activities

You can explore the history and process of invention through Draper Spark!Lab activities at home, too!

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Calling All Brownie Girl Scout Inventors

Bring your Brownie troop to Spark!Lab, where everyone is an inventor!

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Game Controllers for All

Developing an adaptive game controller activity

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The Power of a Challenge

Some famous inventions have come about because of a competition. What will you invent if challenged?