Camp Invention sparks creativity by design

With the theme “Illuminate,” this year’s Camp Invention is shining the light on science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, for 110 elementary school students from Aiken and neighboring counties. For students entering first through …
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Ideas launched at Camp Invention

Plastic fins being shaped and attached to small foam rocket bodies to increase flight distance. Minions being sculpted out of clay to face a boss named Bowling Ball in a newly imagined video game level. 1 Gretna Breeze Digital Only $ 50.00 for 365 days $ 27 …
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Camp Invention promotes skills, hands-on learning

HUNTINGTON – For the first time, Ona Elementary School is hosting Camp Invention, a summer program for first- to sixth-grade students that focus on creativity, innovation and real-world problem solving. The camp, which began Monday and continues through …
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The Farnsworth Invention

History has forgotten, then recalled, any number of claims and counter-claims about rival inventors of technical marvels. Who deserves credit for inventing calculus — Leibnitz, or Newton? (They seem to have created calculus independent from one another.
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‘My Million Dollar Invention’ review: Smithsonian channel begins ambitious eight-part series

WE ALL dream of the Big Idea, the one that will make us stupid rich. Most of those dreams just don’t involve inventing, say, the electric chair. Smithsonian’s ambitious new eight-part series tracks the development of several dozen inventions that did …
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East Texas judge’s invention: A method for hampering patent defendants

Federal courthouse and nearby buildings in Marshall, Texas. Nicolas Henderson For companies that get hit with lawsuits over obvious patents, the best chance they’ve got to fight back is last year’s Supreme Court decision in Alice v. CLS Bank. Now patent …
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