{"id":17770,"date":"2014-04-03T13:02:03","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T17:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devwp.davison.com\/blog\/?p=17770"},"modified":"2017-08-21T13:42:01","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T17:42:01","slug":"wqeds-invention-convention-kicks-off-tomorrow-at-inventionland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/blog\/wqeds-invention-convention-kicks-off-tomorrow-at-inventionland\/","title":{"rendered":"WQED\u2019s Invention Convention Kicks Off Tomorrow at Inventionland!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baseball is back; the weather has started to warm up; and, finally some things are starting to blossom outside. Tomorrow, inside of our creative design facility, Inventionland, creativity will be blossoming, too. The 2014 WQED\u00a0<em>Design Lives Here <\/em>Invention Convention is back!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-17771\" title=\"WQED PGH Change Lives.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/WQED-PGH-Change-Lives..jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"258\" height=\"118\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This year, organizers plan to welcome over 220 students, teachers, mentors and special guests from three area schools to Inventionland for a day full of everything-inventing! Students from Franklin Regional Middle School, Seneca Valley School District\u2019s Haine Middle School and Bethel Park School District\u2019s Independence Middle School will unlock their creativity inside Inventionland at the Invention Convention.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow\u2019s event begins at 9 a.m. and lasts until 2 p.m. Similar to both of last year\u2019s successful Invention Conventions, students in grades 6-8, who have been learning about the engineering design process, will compete in various inventing challenges.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17772\" title=\"InventionConvention8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/InventionConvention8-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This year, the inventing challenges include:<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Zip Line <\/strong>&#8211; where students design and build something that can carry a ping pong ball from the top of a zip line string to the bottom in four seconds or less.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Invention Challenge<\/strong>\u2013 where students present an invention idea that they have been working on prior to coming to the Invention Convention. Tomorrow, students will pitch their invention ideas to our very own team of Inventionland Creationeers!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17773 alignright\" title=\"Design Lives Here\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Design-Lives-Here.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"145\" height=\"135\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Design Lives Here<\/em> Invention Convention is based on the PBS show\u00a0<em>Design Squad Nation<\/em> and is designed to inspire the inventors and engineers of tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>What better place to inspire young creators than our very own design facility and the largest invention factory in America, Inventionland?<\/p>\n<p>We can\u2019t wait to see and share what these aspiring inventors come up with!<\/p>\n<p><em>Copyright Davison 2014<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baseball is back; the weather has started to warm up; and, finally some things are starting to blossom outside. Tomorrow, inside of our creative design facility, Inventionland, creativity will be blossoming, too. The 2014 WQED\u00a0Design Lives Here Invention Convention is back! 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