MARCH 2005- Invention Convention

March 18th

Every Cub Scout can be a genius or an inventor!

 

Each Cub Scout is to gather odds and ends that can be recycled and invent something with these materials.

Cub Scouts will learn about recycling.

What do we recycle, and what becomes of it? How can we help as individuals and as citizens in the community?

Scouts are to bring their invention to the March Pack meeting where they will be presented and prizes will be awarded to all category winners.

Learn about inventors and geniuses of the past, present, and future!

Let your imagination and your own genius lead the way.
A possible list of recycled items may be:
  · Marble · Springs · Buttons
  · Wooden dowels · Tin cans ·Plastic bags
  · Coat hanger · Spools · Wire
  · Pipe cleaners · Toothpicks · Paper plates
  · Scrap materials from lumber company · Drinking straws ·String
  · Lumber of various sizes · Wheels or gears · Old Family car

Guidelines

  • The invention can be any device that does something, but it does not have to actually work

  • Nothing should be purchased from the store for this invention...only found items from around the house should be used

  • Be prepared to show your invention at the Pack Meeting and demonstrate how it works or would work
    Prizes will be awarded for the following categories!

    • Most useful invention

    • Best Health/Safety invention

    • Best Game/toy

    • Best Mechanical invention