{"id":17818,"date":"2014-04-11T09:01:42","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T13:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devwp.davison.com\/blog\/?p=17818"},"modified":"2017-08-21T13:42:04","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T17:42:04","slug":"students-pack-inventionland-for-2014-wqed-invention-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/blog\/students-pack-inventionland-for-2014-wqed-invention-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"Students Pack Inventionland for 2014 WQED Invention Convention!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What does it look like when a couple hundred middle school students take over our creative work space for a day full of inventing fun?<\/p>\n<p>We found out exactly what that looked like last Friday, April 4th, when Inventionland hosted the 2014 WQED Design Lives Here Invention Convention!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17819\" title=\"044\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/044-300x114.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"114\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Students in grade sixth through eighth from Franklin Regional Middle School, Seneca Valley School District\u2019s Haine Middle School and Bethel Park School District\u2019s Independence Middle School unleashed their creative sides during the day-long inventing extravaganza.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17820\" title=\"019\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/019-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As usual, this year\u2019s Invention Convention helped to support STEM education, or the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.<\/p>\n<p>The day included a few inventing challenges, but highlighted one in particular, where students teamed up to pitch new invention ideas to our very own team of Inventionland Creationeers.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s just a peek at this year\u2019s WQED Invention Convention:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17821 aligncenter\" title=\"2014 WQED Design Lives Here Event\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/038-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17822 aligncenter\" title=\"2014 Design Lives Here Event\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/035-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17823 aligncenter\" title=\"2014 WQED Design Lives Here Event\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/030-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17824\" title=\"025\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/025-300x110.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"110\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17825\" title=\"Paddle Power Challenge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/009-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17826\" title=\"Panoramic Inventionland\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/007-300x98.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"98\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17827\" title=\"Welcome to Inventionland\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/006-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Copyright Davison 2014<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does it look like when a couple hundred middle school students take over our creative work space for a day full of inventing fun? 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