Second year design students from Ravensbourne University teamed up with some of our little inventors to come up with invention ideas to help the world, based on 5 exciting invention topics. The students had 8 weeks to make their inventions into real things.

Week 1 - Topic generation

The students at Ravensbourne started by thinking about what problems they could solve through invention. In teams, they came up with 5 invention challenges...

Invent a way to prevent littering
Invent a way to keep you safe in the city
Invent a way to make sport more colourful
Invent a way to use less plastic
Invent a way to make fast food healthy

These challenges became topics of inspiration to take to help their Little Inventors come up with some ingenious problem-solving invention ideas!

Week 2 - Invention workshop fun!

In teams of two, pupils in year 4 at Christchurch Primary School in Erith, together with the students, came up with some invention ideas...

To start, the students and pupils mind mapped some ideas around their chosen topics.

Once they discussed their ideas in pairs the students and the pupils drew down their invention ideas...

Some great ideas were created and there was even some time for some cardboard prototyping too!

Such as The Fat Sucker, by Hillary age 9

Exhibition

The students held an exhibition in the welcome area at the University as a celebration of their efforts. Some of the Little Inventors even came to see their invention ideas made real!