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2010 Young Inventors Fair:

• Happy Anniversary!
  The Young Inventors Fair will celebrate its 30th year on May 1, 2010.
  
  
• New Grade Levels!
  The Young Inventors Program is now open to students in Grades 3-8.
  
  
• Exciting New Venue!
  For the first time, the Young Inventors Fair--where the top 100 students are invited to exhibit their inventions -- will be held at the Best Buy Rotunda at Mall of America on May 1, 2010.

Volunteers Needed:

Evaluate entries for the Young Inventors Program and see how extraordinary students from around the Twin Cities have solved some of life's most puzzling problems! You will be amazed at the ingenuity students in grades 3 through 8 have expressed in creating their own original inventions. By evaluating in February 2010 you will help select the 100 proud young inventors that will exhibit their great invention ideas at the Young Inventors Fair in May, 2010.

Attention Teachers: Volunteers for YIF get four CEUs and $75 toward a substitute teacher.

Forms coming soon!

The 2009-2010 Official YIF Entry Form and YIF Evaluating Form will be available in fall 2009.

"Invention at Play" website: http://www.inventionatplay.org

This resource is a great complement to the Young Inventors Program!

"Invention at Play" invites you to discover the similarities between the ways we play and the creative processes used by leaders in science and technology innovation. You'll meet inventors like Alexander Graham Bell, who invented the telephone, and Stephanie Kwolek, the inventor of Kevlar. You'll discover how a dog inspired the invention of Velcro and how a melting chocolate bar led to the invention of the microwave. You'll build an obstacle course with forks, spatulas, and other kitchen utensils, climb aboard a life-sized sailboard simulator, build whirligigs and robots, and more!

Kelly Ascheman
YIF Coordinator
612/638-1555 or
kelly.ascheman@metroecsu.org
Fax: 612/706-0811

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