1. Jump on the Engineering Cycle!
Connecticut Invention Convention

2. Your Creations
Have you ever created something from blocks, paper, LEGOs ®, or other building materials?
How did you change your ideas?
What made you decide to change your idea?
How did you decide what parts to keep the same?

3. Today:
We are going to learn the process through which inventors and engineers create their designs.
We will use a gadget or invention that already exists to go through the process and describe the process.

4. Stations! There are five stations set up around the room.
You will start at one of the stations and complete the directions at that station using the gadget given to you.
You will have five minutes to complete each stations before I call ‘rotate’ and you will move with your group to the next station.

5. Repeat 1-5 to make improvements
1. Ask
What are the problems?
What isn’t working?
2. Imagine
Brainstorming
Choose best idea
3. Plan
Draw a diagram
Gather materials
4. Create
Follow your plan
Test the product!
5. Improve
What can work better?
Repeat 1-5 to make improvements

6. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.