6th-12 graders…Are you interested in a team-based, integrated/interdisciplinary, head and hands approach to learning? Well the Thomas Edison Invention Challenge is for you!
Basic Rules:
- Get a team of 4 students
- Register your team
- Submit an essay or video answering the question: Who was Thomas Edison?
- Receive a alternative energy kit and create a prototype
- Document all your work
- Present your work
The team registration is due by Dec. 8! Click on the link below!
Deadline #1 – December 8, 2014 – http://edisoninventionchallenge.org/main/about/registration/
Deadline #2 – December 20, 2014 – Teams must electronically submit an essay, not to exceed 750 words OR a student created video. The essay/video topic will be “Who was Thomas Edison?” NOTE: 3 minute Video submissions are preferred.
Deadline #3 – January 30, 2015 – Teams must submit electronic images of their design logs. Powerpoint would be the preferred method to showcase your Notebook.
Mid February – Teams receive an alternative energy kit
Deadline #4 – March 20, 2015 – Teams are to submit a PowerPoint presentation showing the build process. See submission criteria included in this manual.
Deadline #5 – April 10, 2015 – 50-60% marketing of your invention and its added value to society and 40-50% demo of a working model or explaining how you imagine it to work.
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