1. Astounding Inventions
Let your imaginations go wild!!
Create an invention that will solve a problem or make some one’s life easier.
This years theme is “Reducing our carbon footprint…SMALL footprints help our environment in BIG ways.”

2. Cookie and Milk Cup Put 2-3 of your favorite cookies, so you don’t need extra plates for them.

3. Banana Guard
Are you fed up with bringing bananas to work or school only to find them bruised and squashed?
Banana Guard allows you to safely transport and store individual bananas and lets you enjoy perfect bananas any time, any where.

4. Plush Car Slippers
Do you get up at night to drink water, go to the toilet…and bump into everything and anything possible? Do you wish you could see in the dark? Or at least protect your feet from the inevitable bumps? feet in front of you;
These plush slippers have bright LED lights that are triggered by your footsteps and light up the floor 30

5. Retractable Cleats

6. The Secret Pocket Socks

7. Lock Cup Anti-Theft Coffee Cup
Lock Cup Anti-Theft Coffee Cup. Are you tired of others stealing your coffee cup? Well now there’s a solution. The Lock – Cup has a hole which prevents most people from using it. Only the owner of the cup can use his/hers shaped key to close the hole.

8. One Click Butter Cutter controls your portion as an important part of staying healthy. This ingenious butter cutter delivers one standard portion with each click of the handle.

9. What you need to do
Look around you or ask from family and friends about problems they have.
Think of a solution for their problems
Make a model for your invention: It doesn’t have to work and it can be smaller than the real life invention.

10. Keep a log of your project
Inventor’s Handbook
Keep a log of your project
Draw your idea
Search the patent office, online catalogs and ask family and friends to find out how your invention is unique.
Do some market research: How much family and friends would pay for it

11. Inventor’s Display Board ( A presentation of the info in the inventor’s log)
This is a sample board. You can change it and for example can add pricing and marketing research information.

12. Interview
At the district level each student will be interviewed and asked to explain their invention and the process to get there.
Important parameters are
Student’s own original work
Usefulness
Research performed
Illustrations
Material the model is made of

13. Rules Only individual submissions allowed
Invention ideas, illustrations, and descriptions should be the child’s own.
Parents are invited to assist children in making and photographing the invention model since the invention will be judged on the child’s ideas, not on the model.

14. Your invention should include the following: Notebook Model (doesn’t have to work) Display Board or Video Submission Due: Thursday January 5th, 2017 in the Media Center Parent interest forms due on Nov 17th

15. Time line
Deadline for parent interest form           Tue Nov 17th Invention due         Tue Jan 5th Winners announced                                    By Fri Jan 20th Winners set up at IVC                                  Fri January 29th,
3-6 pm Winners judged at IVC                                 Sat Jan 30th,
9 am to 3 pm  

16. Every participant at Lakeside will get a participation certificate.
The top 12 participants will go to the district-wide competition at IVC.
1 winner from the district level competition will be chosen for a grand prize – a patent search worth $10,000! Last year, the blue ribbon winners received a $50 reward.
The Ellen show will also be on hand to interview students and possibly pick a student or two to go on show