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To the Shen Inventor’s Parents

Your support and encouragement is very important to your child’s success at school, and we ask you to support your child in joining this special SHENEDEHOWA INVENTOR’s PROGRAM!

 Encourage your child to participate in this extra-curricular enrichment program by having your child invent a problem-solver in your home!  Please provide positive reinforcement by encouraging ideas, even those that may seen unfamiliar or unusual, especially in the early stages of the program.

 Your involvement is strongly encouraged; however, it is important that the invention ideas, illustrations and descriptions are your child’s own.  Parents are invited to assist children in making and photographing the inventor’s model since the inventions will be judged on the child’s ideas, not on the model.  Parents may also provide advice concerning research.  Parents are not allowed to assist children of any age with the required diagram of the invention.

 Grades K-3 Only!  Your child may dictate his/her ideas for the display board for you to type or write.  You MUST transcribe your child’s actual words and you should not paraphrase!

 MIDDLE SCHOOL INVENTORS:          You know how to invent! You are the leaders of this program! So, try harder with the ideas, spelling, grammar, punctuation and diagramming!  Parental involvement should be less with these wiz-kids!


 INVENTOR'S RULES

 ·        You can invent and submit a practical invention and/or a fantasy invention

·        A group of students can work on one invention

·        More than one invention can be submitted by each Inventor/Group Inventors

·        Computer generated diagrams and descriptions are acceptable

·        You can improve on a previously patented invention

·        Originality is heavily weighted in the judging