What’s Right With Our Schools: Invention Convention
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Dozens of students at Alexander II Magnet school put persistence and creativity to the test during Invention Convention.
“Students started brainstorming and thinking of things that bugged them, problems that they face in their everyday lives, or that their family faces. After they narrowed it down to one specific problem, they created an invention to solve that problem,” says REACH teacher Jennifer McMahan.
Students created all sorts of inventions: energy trees, detachable shoes, time machines and much more during the four-month long process.
“If you teach them how to be problem solvers, if you teach them that they can be successful, and give them the tools to do that, they will make our world a better place,” adds McMahan.
“Windows of the World Creativity” was this year’s Invention Convention theme.
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