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For the first time, the University of Illinois Springfield hosted Camp Invention, a national summer enrichment day camp program for first through sixth graders designed to foster innovation and creativity while also building self-esteem, teamwork, persistence, and goal-setting skills.
I hate tucking my sheets under the bed - it wastes up to 5 feet of sheets, gets the sheets dirty, and worse it causes the sheets to get taught right at the peak of my toes which makes moving more difficult.
The fix is a gripping elastic band wrapped around the bed that you can tuck the sheets into.
This was one of three tours offered at the Meeting of the Minds 2012 in San Francisco, CA.
Description:
Tour #1: Arts, Innovation and Sustainability Tour of Central San Francisco
This 1.5 hour walking tour will be lead by James Hanusa, Green Economy Advisor for Stakeholder Forum and New Initiatives for Burning Man Project.
The tour will start at the award winning, newly built San Francisco Public Utilities Commission headquarters, key features include onsite clean energy generation, 100 percent waste water treated on site and advanced daylight harvesting.
The electric vehicle pilot project at City Hall will be the next stop with both car share and city vehicles in the program. We will walk through the planned Resource Conservation District at Civic Center on our way to UN Plaza passing the Federal Building, which is the first naturally ventilated office building on the West Coast since the invention of air conditioning. The building is also an example of how building design can help slash emissions of greenhouse gases.
We will proceed down the emerging arts and innovation district of Central Market Street visiting multiple local arts groups such as art and technology collective, Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, and cultural avant garde organization, Burning Man Project. The 5M innovation complex will be the next stop with short interviews with developer Forest City and leaders from resident organizationTechShop, Hub Soma and Intersection for the Arts. Our tour will continue through the Yuerba Buena Gardens area including the Center for the Arts, the SF Museum of Modern Art, including a quick chat with the W Hotel Manager about his building, which is one of the first LEED Silver for existing buildings in the world.
Our final stop is the gallery at the San Francisco Planning + Urban Research Association‘s LEED Silver headquarters.
More information: cityminded.org/events/sanfrancisco/pre-conference-tours
For the first time, the University of Illinois Springfield hosted Camp Invention, a national summer enrichment day camp program for first through sixth graders designed to foster innovation and creativity while also building self-esteem, teamwork, persistence, and goal-setting skills.
The Postcard
A carte postale published by Lévy et Neurdein Réunis, 44, Rue Letellier, Paris.
Béthune
Béthune is located in the former province of Artois. It is situated 73 kilometres (45 miles) south-east of Calais, 33 kilometres (21 miles) west of Lille, and 186 kilometres (116 miles) north of Paris.
Béthune is a town rich in architectural heritage and history. It has, among other features, a large paved square with shops and cafés, as well as a 47-metre-tall (154 ft) (133 steps) belfry standing in the centre, from the top of which the Belgian border can be seen.
The Belfry dates from 1376, and contains thirty-six bells.
During the Great War, Béthune was mostly defended by British forces, as well as units of the Canadian and Indian armies, and initially suffered little damage.
It was an important railway junction and hospital site, holding the 33rd Casualty Station until December 1917.
However, during the second phase of the Ludendorff Offensive in April 1918, German forces reached Locon, 5 km (3 mi) away from Béthune, and on the 21st. May 1918 launched a bombardment which virtually flattened it.
The whole town has since been rebuilt.
Many combatants from both sides are buried in Béthune Town Cemetery.
Corporal Stare
'Corporal Stare' is a poem by Robert Graves (1895–1985) that was published in 1918 in his book 'Fairies and Fusiliers'. Robert Graves (1895-1985) was a poet and scholar, and a captain in the British Army during the First World War.
‘Corporal Stare’ is a ghost story in verse, taking place in Béthune, France, during the war. But this was not pure invention.
This poem is an account of what Graves claimed was a real other-worldly encounter he had. One June evening Graves and his men were enjoying a night off after a bitter and bloody tour at Cuinchy, near Béthune. A joyous affair – ‘Seven courses, the most gorgeous meal’, as the poem says.
Halfway through the meal Graves looked up and saw Private Challoner at the window. The private saluted, and then walked away. ‘There was no mistaking him’, Graves recounted later.
Graves leapt up and looked out of the window. He saw nothing except ‘a fag-end dropped on the silent road’, as the poem says.
Most chilling of all was that fact that Graves knew that Challoner had been killed in battle that May – ‘Torn horribly by machine-gun fire!’
Graves had known Challoner from service at barracks in Great Britain. This was the last time Graves had seen Challoner alive, when Challoner shook his hand and said, ‘I’ll meet you again in France, sir’.
"Back from the line one night in June,
I gave a dinner at Béthune—
Seven courses, the most gorgeous meal
Money could buy or batman steal.
Five hungry lads welcomed the fish
With shouts that nearly cracked the dish;
Asparagus came with tender tops,
Strawberries in cream, and mutton chops.
Said Jenkins, as my hand he shook,
“They’ll put this in the history book.”
We bawled Church anthems in choro
Of Bethlehem and Hermon snow,
With drinking songs, a jolly sound
To help the good red Pommard round.
Stories and laughter interspersed,
We drowned a long La Bassée thirst—
Trenches in June make throats damned dry.
Then through the window suddenly,
Badge, stripes and medals all complete,
We saw him swagger up the street,
Just like a live man—Corporal Stare!
Stare! Killed last May at Festubert.
Caught on patrol near the Boche wire,
Torn horribly by machine-gun fire!
He paused, saluted smartly, grinned,
Then passed away like a puff of wind,
Leaving us blank astonishment.
The song broke, up we started, leant
Out of the window—nothing there,
Not the least shadow of Corporal Stare,
Only a quiver of smoke that showed
A fag-end dropped on the silent road."
Robert Graves
Captain Robert von Ranke Graves, who was born on the 24th. July 1895, was an English poet, historical novelist and critic.
His father was Alfred Perceval Graves, a celebrated Irish poet and figure in the Gaelic revival; they were both Celticists and students of Irish mythology.
Robert Graves produced more than 140 works in his lifetime. His poems, his translations and innovative analysis of the Greek myths, his memoir of his early life — including his role in the Great War — Good-Bye to All That (1929), and his speculative study of poetic inspiration The White Goddess have never been out of print.
Robert is also a renowned short story writer, with stories such as The Tenement still being popular today.
He earned his living from writing, particularly popular historical novels such as I, Claudius; King Jesus; The Golden Fleece; and Count Belisarius.
He also was a prominent translator of Classical Latin and Ancient Greek texts; his versions of The Twelve Caesars and The Golden Ass remain popular for their clarity and entertaining style.
Graves was awarded the 1934 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for both I, Claudius and Claudius the God.
Robert Graves - The Early Years
Robert Graves was born into a middle-class family in Wimbledon, then part of Surrey, now part of south London. He was the eighth of ten children born to Alfred Perceval Graves (1846–1931), who was the sixth child and second son of Charles Graves, Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe.
Robert's father was an Irish school inspector, Gaelic scholar and the author of the popular song "Father O'Flynn."
Robert's mother was his father's second wife, Amalie Elisabeth Sophie von Ranke (1857–1951), the niece of the historian Leopold von Ranke.
At the age of seven, double pneumonia following measles almost took Graves's life, the first of three occasions when he was despaired of by his doctors as a result of afflictions of the lungs, the second being the result of a war wound, and the third when he contracted Spanish influenza in late 1918, immediately before demobilisation.
At school, Graves was enrolled as Robert von Ranke Graves, and in Germany his books are published under that name, but before and during the Great War the name caused him difficulties.
In August 1916 an officer who disliked Robert spread the rumour that he was the brother of a captured German spy who had assumed the name "Karl Graves". The problem resurfaced in a minor way in the Second World War, when a suspicious rural policeman blocked his appointment to the Special Constabulary.
Graves's eldest half-brother, Philip Perceval Graves, achieved success as a journalist, and his younger brother, Charles Patrick Graves, was a writer and journalist.
Robert Graves' Education
Graves received his early education at a series of six preparatory schools, including King's College School in Wimbledon, Penrallt in Wales, Hillbrow School in Rugby, Rokeby School in Wimbledon, and Copthorne in Sussex, from which last in 1909 he won a scholarship to Charterhouse.
There Robert began to write poetry, and took up boxing, in due course becoming school champion at both welter- and middleweight. He claimed that this was in response to persecution because of the German element in his name, his outspokenness, his scholarly and moral seriousness, and his poverty relative to the other boys.
Robert also sang in the choir, meeting there an aristocratic boy three years younger, G. H. "Peter" Johnstone, with whom he began an intense romantic friendship, the scandal of which led ultimately to an interview with the headmaster.
However, Graves himself called it "chaste and sentimental" and "proto-homosexual," and though he was clearly in love with Peter (disguised by the name "Dick" in Good-Bye to All That), he denied that their relationship was ever sexual. Robert was warned about Peter's proclivities by other contemporaries.
Among the masters, Robert's chief influence was George Mallory, who introduced him to contemporary literature and took him mountaineering in the holidays. In his final year at Charterhouse, he won a classical exhibition to St. John's College, Oxford, but did not take his place there until after the Great War.
Robert Graves and the Great War
At the outbreak of the Great War on the 4th. August 1914, Graves enlisted almost immediately, taking a commission in the 3rd. Battalion of the Royal Welch Fusiliers as a second lieutenant on the 12th. August.
He received rapid promotion, being promoted to lieutenant on the 5th. May 1915 and to captain on the 26th. October 1915.
Robert published his first volume of poems, Over the Brazier, in 1916. He developed an early reputation as a war poet, and was one of the first to write realistic poems about the experience of frontline conflict.
In later years, he omitted his war poems from his collections, on the grounds that they were too obviously "part of the war poetry boom."
At the Battle of the Somme, he was so badly wounded by a shell-fragment through the lung that he was expected to die, and was officially reported as having died of wounds. However Robert gradually recovered and, apart from a brief spell back in France, spent the remainder of the war in England.
One of Graves' friends at this time was the poet Siegfried Sassoon, a fellow officer in his regiment. They both convalesced at Somerville College, Oxford, which was used as a hospital for officers. Sassoon wrote to him in 1917.:
"How unlike you to crib my idea of
going to the Ladies' College at Oxford,"
At Somerville College, Graves met and fell in love with Marjorie, a nurse and professional pianist, but stopped writing to her once he learned that she was engaged. About his time at Somerville, he wrote:
"I enjoyed my stay at Somerville. The
sun shone, and the discipline was easy."
In 1917, Siegfried Sassoon rebelled against the conduct of the war by making a public anti-war statement. Graves feared Sassoon could face a court martial, and intervened with the military authorities, persuading them that Sassoon was experiencing shell shock, and that they should treat him accordingly.
As a result, Sassoon was sent to Craiglockhart, a military hospital in Edinburgh, where he was treated by W. H. R. Rivers and met fellow patient Wilfred Owen. Graves was treated here as well. Graves also had shell shock, or neurasthenia as it was then called, but he was never hospitalised for it:
"I thought of going back to France, but realized
the absurdity of the notion. Since 1916, the fear
of gas obsessed me: any unusual smell, even a
sudden strong scent of flowers in a garden, was
enough to send me trembling.
And I couldn't face the sound of heavy shelling
now; the noise of a car back-firing would send
me flat on my face, or running for cover."
The friendship between Graves and Sassoon is documented in Graves' letters and biographies. The intensity of their early relationship is demonstrated in Graves's collection Fairies and Fusiliers (1917), which contains many poems celebrating their friendship.
Sassoon remarked upon a "heavy sexual element" within it, an observation supported by the sentimental nature of much of the surviving correspondence between the two men. Through Sassoon, Graves became a friend of Wilfred Owen, who often used to send him poems from France.
In September 1917, Graves was seconded for duty with a garrison battalion. Graves's army career ended dramatically with an incident which could have led to a charge of desertion. He wrote:
"Having been posted to Limerick in late 1918,
I woke up with a sudden chill, which I recognized
as the first symptoms of Spanish influenza.
I decided to make a run for it. I should at least
have my influenza in an English, and not an Irish,
hospital."
Arriving at Waterloo with a high fever but without the official papers that would secure his release from the army, he chanced to share a taxi with a demobilisation officer also returning from Ireland, who completed his papers for him with the necessary secret codes.
Robert Graves After the Great War
Immediately after the war, Graves with his wife, Nancy Nicholson had a growing family, but he was financially insecure and weakened physically and mentally:
"I was very thin, very nervous, and with about four
years' loss of sleep to make up, I was waiting until
I got well enough to go to Oxford on the Government
educational grant.
I knew that it would be years before I could face
anything but a quiet country life. My disabilities were
many: I could not use a telephone, I felt sick every
time I travelled by train, and to see more than two
new people in a single day prevented me from
sleeping.
I felt ashamed of myself as a drag on Nancy, but had
sworn on the very day of my demobilization never to
be under anyone's orders for the rest of my life.
Somehow I must live by writing."
In October 1919, Robert took up his place at the University of Oxford, soon changing course to English Language and Literature, though managing to retain his Classics exhibition.
In consideration of his health, he was permitted to live a little outside Oxford, on Boars Hill, where the residents included Robert Bridges, John Masefield (his landlord), Edmund Blunden, Gilbert Murray and Robert Nichols. Later, the family moved to Worlds End Cottage on Collice Street, Islip, Oxfordshire.
Robert's most notable Oxford companion was T. E. Lawrence, then a Fellow of All Souls', with whom he discussed contemporary poetry and shared in the planning of elaborate pranks. By this time, he had become an atheist. His work was part of the literature event in the art competition at the 1924 Summer Olympics.
While still an undergraduate Robert established a grocers shop on the outskirts of Oxford but the business soon failed. He also failed his BA degree, but was exceptionally permitted to take a Bachelor of Letters by dissertation instead, allowing him to pursue a teaching career.
In 1926, Robert took up a post as a professor of English Literature at Cairo University, accompanied by his wife, their children and the poet Laura Riding, with whom he was having an affair. Graves later claimed that one of his pupils at the university was a young Gamal Abdel Nasser.
Robert returned to London briefly, where he separated from his wife under highly emotional circumstances (at one point Laura Riding attempted suicide) before leaving to live with Riding in Deià, Majorca.
There they continued to publish letterpress books under the rubric of the Seizin Press, and wrote two successful academic books together: A Survey of Modernist Poetry (1927) and A Pamphlet Against Anthologies (1928). Both works had great influence on modern literary criticism.
Robert Graves' Literary Career
In 1927, Robert published Lawrence and the Arabs, a commercially successful biography of T. E. Lawrence. The autobiographical Good-Bye to All That (1929, revised by him and republished in 1957) proved a success, but cost him many of his friends, notably Siegfried Sassoon.
In 1934, Robert published his most commercially successful work, I, Claudius. Using classical sources, he constructed a complex and compelling tale of the life of the Roman emperor Claudius, a tale extended in the sequel Claudius the God (1935).
I, Claudius received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1934. Later, in the 1970's, the Claudius books were turned into the very popular television series I, Claudius, with Sir Derek Jacobi shown in both Britain and United States.
Another historical novel by Graves, Count Belisarius (1938), recounts the career of the Byzantine general Belisarius.
Graves and Laura Riding left Majorca in 1936 at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, and in 1939 they moved to the United States, taking lodging in New Hope, Pennsylvania.
Their volatile relationship and eventual breakup was described by Robert's nephew Richard Perceval Graves in Robert Graves: 1927–1940: the Years with Laura, and T. S. Matthews's Jacks or Better (1977). It was also the basis for Miranda Seymour's novel The Summer of '39 (1998).
After returning to Britain, Graves began a relationship with Beryl Hodge, the wife of Alan Hodge, his collaborator on The Long Week-End (1940) and The Reader Over Your Shoulder (1943).
Graves and Beryl (they were not to marry until 1950) lived in Galmpton, Torbay until 1946, when they re-established a home with their three children, in Deià, Majorca. The house is now a museum.
The year 1946 also saw the publication of Robert's historical novel King Jesus. He published The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth in 1948; it is a study of the nature of poetic inspiration, interpreted in terms of the classical and Celtic mythology he knew so well.
He turned to science fiction with Seven Days in New Crete (1949), and in 1953 he published The Nazarene Gospel Restored with Joshua Podro.
Robert also wrote Hercules, My Shipmate, published under that name in 1945 (but first published as The Golden Fleece in 1944).
In 1955, he published The Greek Myths, which retells a large body of Greek myths, each tale followed by extensive commentary drawn from the system of The White Goddess. His retellings are well respected; many of his unconventional interpretations and etymologies are dismissed by classicists.
Graves in turn dismissed the reactions of classical scholars, arguing that they are too specialised and prose-minded to interpret ancient poetic meaning, and that:
"The few independent thinkers are
the poets, who try to keep civilisation
alive."
He published a volume of short stories, ¡Catacrok! Mostly Stories, Mostly Funny, in 1956. In 1961, he became Professor of Poetry at Oxford, a post he held until 1966.
In 1967, Robert Graves published, together with Omar Ali-Shah, a new translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. The translation quickly became controversial; Graves was attacked for trying to break the spell of famed passages in Edward FitzGerald's Victorian translation.
L. P. Elwell-Sutton, an orientalist at Edinburgh University, maintained that the manuscript used by Ali-Shah and Graves, which Ali-Shah and his brother Idries Shah claimed had been in their family for 800 years, was a forgery. The translation was a critical disaster, and Graves' reputation suffered severely due to what the public perceived as his gullibility in falling for the Shah brothers' deception.
In 1968, Graves was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry by Queen Elizabeth II. His private audience with the Queen was shown in the BBC documentary film Royal Family, which aired in 1969.
From the 1960's until his death, Robert Graves frequently exchanged letters with Spike Milligan. Many of their letters to each other are collected in the book Dear Robert, Dear Spike.
On the 11th. November 1985, Graves was among sixteen Great War poets commemorated on a slate stone unveiled in Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner. The inscription on the stone was written by friend and fellow Great War poet Wilfred Owen. It reads:
"My subject is War, and the pity
of War. The Poetry is in the pity."
Of the 16 poets, Graves was the only one still living at the time of the commemoration ceremony, though he died less than a month later.
UK government documents released in 2012 indicate that Graves turned down a CBE in 1957.
In 2012, the Nobel Records were opened after 50 years, and it was revealed that Graves was among a shortlist of authors considered for the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, along with John Steinbeck (who was that year's recipient of the prize), Lawrence Durrell, Jean Anouilh and Karen Blixen.
Graves was rejected because, even though he had written several historical novels, he was still primarily seen as a poet, and committee member Henry Olsson was reluctant to award any Anglo-Saxon poet the prize before the death of Ezra Pound, believing that other writers did not match his talent.
In 2017, Seven Stories Press began its Robert Graves Project. republishing fourteen of Graves' out-of-print books.
UK government documents released in 2023 reveal that in 1967 Graves was considered for, but then passed over for, the post of Poet Laureate.
His religious belief has been examined by Patrick Grant, "Belief in anarchy: Robert Graves as mythographer," in Six Modern Authors and Problems of Belief.
Robert Graves' Sexuality
Robert Graves was bisexual, having intense romantic relationships with both men and women, though the word he coined for it was "pseudo-homosexual." Graves noted:
"I was raised to be prudishly innocent,
as my mother had planned I should be."
In fact his mother, Amy, forbade speaking about sex, save in a "gruesome" context, and insisted That:
"All skin must be covered."
During his days in Penrallt, he had "innocent crushes" on boys; one in particular was a boy named Ronny:
"Ronny climbed trees, killed pigeons with
a catapult and broke all the school rules
while never seeming to get caught."
At Charterhouse, an all-boys school, it was common for boys to develop amorous but seldom erotic relationships, which the headmaster mostly ignored.
Graves described boxing with a friend, Raymond Rodakowski, as having a "a lot of sex feeling", and although Graves admitted to loving Raymond, he would dismiss it as "more comradely than amorous."
In his fourth year at Charterhouse, Graves met "Dick" (George "Peter" Harcourt Johnstone) with whom he would develop "an even stronger relationship".
Johnstone was an object of adoration in Graves's early poems. Graves's feelings for Johnstone were exploited by bullies, who led Graves to believe that Johnstone was seen kissing the choir-master.
Graves, jealous, demanded the choir-master's resignation. During the Great War, Johnstone remained a "solace" to Graves. Despite Graves's own "pure and innocent" view of Johnstone, Graves's cousin Gerald wrote in a letter that:
"Johnstone is not at all the innocent
fellow I took him for, but as bad as
anyone could be".
Johnstone remained a subject for Graves' poems despite this. Communication between them ended when Johnstone's mother found their letters and forbade further contact with Graves. Johnstone was later arrested for attempting to seduce a Canadian soldier, which removed Graves's denial about Johnstone's infidelity, causing Graves to collapse.
In 1917, Graves met Marjorie Machin, an auxiliary nurse from Kent. He admired her "direct manner and practical approach to life". However Graves did not pursue the relationship when he realised that Machin had a fiancé at the Front.
This began a period where Graves would begin to take interest in women with more masculine traits. Nancy Nicholson, his future wife, was an ardent feminist: she kept her hair short, wore trousers, and had "boyish directness and youth."
Her feminism never conflicted with Graves's own ideas of female superiority. Siegfried Sassoon, who felt as if Graves and he had a relationship of a fashion, felt betrayed by Graves's new relationship, and declined to go to the wedding. Graves apparently never loved Sassoon in the same fashion that Sassoon loved Graves.
Graves's and Nicholson's marriage was strained, with Graves living with "shell shock", and having an insatiable need for sex, which Nicholson did not reciprocate. Nancy forbade any mention of the war, which added to the conflict.
In 1926, he met Laura Riding, with whom he would run away in 1929 while still married to Nicholson. Prior to this, Graves, Riding and Nicholson attempted a triadic relationship called "The Trinity."
Despite the implications, Riding and Nicholson were most likely heterosexual. The triangle became the "Holy Circle" with the addition of Irish poet Geoffrey Phibbs, who himself was still married to Irish artist Norah McGuinness. This relationship revolved around the worship and reverence of Laura Riding.
Graves and Phibbs both slept with Riding. When Phibbs attempted to leave the relationship, Graves was sent to track him down, even threatening to kill Phibbs if he did not return to the circle. When Phibbs resisted, Riding threw herself out of a window, with Graves following suit to reach her.
Graves' commitment to Riding was so strong that he entered, on her word, a period of enforced celibacy, which he did not enjoy.
By 1938, no longer entranced by Riding, Graves fell in love with the then-married Beryl Hodge. In 1950, after much dispute with Nicholson (whom he had not yet divorced), he married Beryl.
However despite having a loving marriage with Beryl, Graves took on a 17-year-old muse, Judith Bledsoe, in 1950. Although the relationship was described as "not overtly sexual", Graves later in 1952 attacked Judith's new fiancé, getting the police called on him in the process.
Robert later had three successive female muses, who came to dominate his poetry.
The Death and Legacy of Robert Graves
During the early 1970's, Graves began to experience increasingly severe memory loss. By his 80th. birthday in 1975, he had come to the end of his working life.
He lived for another decade, in an increasingly dependent condition, until he died from heart failure on the 7th. December 1985 at the age of 90 years.
He was laid to rest the next morning in the small churchyard on a hill at Deià, at the site of a shrine that had once been sacred to the White Goddess of Pelion.
His second wife, Beryl Graves, died on the 27th. October 2003, and her body was interred in the same grave.
Three of Robert's former houses have a blue plaque on them: in Wimbledon, Brixham, and Islip.
Graves had eight children. With his first wife, Nancy Nicholson (1899-1977), he had Jennie (who married journalist Alexander Clifford), David (who was killed in the Second World War), Catherine (who married nuclear scientist Clifford Dalton at Aldershot), and Sam.
With his second wife, Beryl Pritchard Hodge (1915–2003), he had William (author of the well-received memoir Wild Olives: Life on Majorca with Robert Graves), Lucia (a translator and author whose versions of novels by Carlos Ruiz Zafón have been successful commercially), Juan (addressed in one of Robert Graves' most famous and critically praised poems, "To Juan at the Winter Solstice"), and Tomás (a writer and musician).
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The Musee des Arts et Metiers (Museum of Inventions) is an industrial design museum in Paris. The museum houses the collection of the National Conservatory of Arts and Industry which was founded in 1794 as a repository for the preservation of scientific instruments and inventions.
For the first time, the University of Illinois Springfield hosted Camp Invention, a national summer enrichment day camp program for first through sixth graders designed to foster innovation and creativity while also building self-esteem, teamwork, persistence, and goal-setting skills.
There is nothing more exciting than watching our steel cutting machine cut out a new product design.
So I helped my parents clean out the garage over Labor Day weekend! ...we literally had everything AND the kitchen sink!! So many long, lost treasures uncovered!
This is my own creation. yes, I know it's hard to believe that I was so ingenious! ...don't ask me what it is ;-)
For the first time, the University of Illinois Springfield hosted Camp Invention, a national summer enrichment day camp program for first through sixth graders designed to foster innovation and creativity while also building self-esteem, teamwork, persistence, and goal-setting skills.
Want to extend the life of your expensive footwear? Simply attach these little umbrellas to your feet. This is one product from the Chindogu line of weird Japanese inventions.
What is Chindogu??
Weird inventions are an actual art form in Japan called Chindogu. It’s a collection of both bizarre and brilliant gadgets that are supposed to solve annoying little problems of modern life either at home, work, leisure or commuting in traffic.
These weird inventions are all real and have actually been made BUT these must never be patented or sold. This would break a sacred rule of Chindogu.
A proper Chindogu is also supposed to solve one problem and then at the same time create at least one bigger problem. They also must work but at the same time be entirely impractical. I guess it’s a hobby of sorts and a pretty weird one at that but that!
Today i am presenting you a list of cool and awesome inventions. These gadgets are so wonderful that you want to buy all of them. Lets have a look on these gadgets and inventions and tell me in comments below what you like or dislike? On This Page.
The invention. Made to pop baloons, but his also has games and Tron stuff for music. Quite the inventor.
ATM cards allows your wallet to close
Camera: Nikon D50
Glass: Tamron 17-50 f2.8
Strobist: SB-600 fired from camera top
Fourth-grade students displayed their engineering skills during the annual Westminster Invention Convention held on Feb. 21 in the Lower School gym. The event was part of National Engineer’s Week.
Westminster has hosted the Invention Convention for more than 16 years, with fourth-grade teacher Kathy Buurma having organized each event. After learning about famous inventors, the students are tasked with determining a problem for which they would like to find a solution. The students work on the invention in class, and parents are invited to attend class to assist with construction. Four adults outside of the student’s immediate family test each invention before it is submitted for judging. The judges consider the reviews of the testers and the marketing of the invention in addition to the invention itself. Inventions this year include an extreme laptop case, a cat bed and breakfast and a lighted sweater for dogs.
A few more inventions (to be built at a later date!) recorded in my 3 x 5 little Moleskine with a Sharpie.
The invention. Made to pop baloons, but his also has games and Tron stuff for music. Quite the inventor.