Inventive Kids

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Check out the latest about the Inventive Kids site and the Inventive Women series.

Noteworthy

2005. Six hundred copies of Canadian Women Invent! have been donated to the Toronto District School Board by Circle Media.

Recognition

The Eisenhower National Clearinghouse (ENC) has included www.inventivekids.com in the Digital Dozen, a list of exemplary web sites for educators. ENC is funded by the United States Department of Education and administered by The Ohio State University. ENC collects both physical and virtual resources useful to math and science educators.

Inventive Kids was selected to be a Featured Site for February 2005 on Cuture.ca, Canada’s cultural gateway. Cuture.ca provides Canadians and Web surfers from around the world with quality information on the diversity and vitality of cultural life in Canada. http://www.culture.ca/featuredsites-sitesenvedette-e.jsp?year=2005&month=2

Becta, the U.K. government educational agency, has included InventiveKids.com in its latest teaching-themed publication.

InventiveKids.com is proud to have been linked-to from TVO http://www.tvokids.com/framesets/misc.html?page=/informationStation/links/default.html&bgColor=990000&section=informationStation

the Lemelson-MIT Program, ScienceClub.org, and LearnersLink.com, as well as many other learning sites!

The Washington Times newspaper gives http://www.inventivekids.com an A+ rating and says " A nice variety of visual activities and plenty of 'I didn't know that' facts that lead to at least a few hours of enjoyment for the junior inventor or plenty of ideas for students in search of a unique paper."

The Canadian Children's Book Centre awards "Canadian Women Invent!" with the presitgous "Our Choice" award. The book is featured in the Canadian Children's Book Centre’s 2003 annual guide to Canada's best new children's books.

http://www.inventivekids.com is selected by the Exploratorium science museum in San Francisco for its "Ten Cool Sites" list http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/cool/invention.html

Reviews

Education Today (PDF 298KB)

The Globe And Mail (PDF 246KB)

The Canadian Children's Book Centre (PDF 59KB)

The Washington Times (PDK 523KB)

In the News

2005, Chatelaine Magazine, article, Got a Cool Idea? Here’s how to turn it into the next must-have thing. October

2005, Financial Post, article, Inventing is a tough racket. April

2002, Brampton Business Times, article, Women Inventing Business Opportunities, April

2002, The Ottawa Citizen, Techweekly, article, What Women Want, May

2002, City TV - Breakfast Television, interview, May

2002, Globe and Mail Newspaper, book review, November 2

2001, Homemaker Magazine, article, Fall Issue

2001, Global Night News, interview, website launch, June,

2001, Newsworld CBC, interview, website launch, June,

2001, CTV Night News, interview, website launch, June,

2000, Silicon Salley, on-line interview, November, siliconsalley.com

2000, CBC Radio PEI, interview, Morning Show, August

2000, The Guardian, artcicle, Looking for P.E.I.'s Inventive Women, July

2000, CBC Radio, interview, Quebec Morning Show, June

2000, Homemakers Magazine, article, What's Hot, Summer Issue

2000, Globe and Mail, Report on Business, article, Inventive Woman Takes Her Time, June

2000, Silicon Valley North, article, Wired Women Fill Ranks of Cyber-entrepreneurs, July

2000, Ottawa Citizen, article, Virtual Team Scours Country for Female Inventors, July

1999, Woman Magazine, article, Annie Wood: inventive woman, Fall

1999, CBC Radio NFLD Morning Show, interview, June

1999, CBC TV, Pamela Wallin Live, interview, Mothers of Invention, one hour show, co-produced by Inventive Women Inc.

1998, Globe and Mail, article, The Shadowland of Women Inventors, August