Weare Middle and Center Woods Upper Elementary Schools held their Invention Convention the first week in March. The Invention Convention is part of The Young Inventor’s Program, a K-12 project-based learning program that provides a hands-on STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) educational enrichment opportunity to budding youth inventors.
“Selecting the winners to compete at the Regional Convention on March 31 at Southern New Hampshire University was difficult for the judges of teachers, administrators and community members as all of the projects showed such creativity,” said WMS/CWUES Principal Shawne Hillard. “But, in the end,” she continued, “five students and their projects were selected to move on to regionals.
Students moving on to regionals from the Weare Middle and Center Woods Upper Elementary Schools are:
■ Cameron DeNapoli for the Playful Puppy, an invention in which tennis balls are pushed by air to your dog so he can play while you’re away. Cameron’s invention also won the Judges’ Choice Award.
■Grace Meisser for the De-ice-inator which first squirts an alcohol and water solution on your windshield while the other end has a squeegee to remove the melting ice from your windshield. The De-ice-inator also won the Practical and Useful Award.
■Claire McCallum’s Super Secure Solar Shredder, a solar operated shredder for junk mail located outside next to your mailbox, also won the Original and Unique Award.
■Molly Heath’s The Crusher 3000, which crushes plastic into smaller pieces to recycle easier, which also won the Environmental Award.
■Sadie McCallum is taking her ATOM (Automatic Therapy Orthopedic Machine) to regionals. The ATOM helps people stay in proper form in physical therapy and also won the Medical Award.