The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) wants to make Canada a country of innovators and foster a spirit of scientific exploration for all.
They have brought Little Inventors to Canada, to help turn the next generation into the superstar inventors of the future!
After the success of the Inventions for Space challenge, NSERC and Little Inventors will be launching a new challenge late 2019 in collaboration with UNESCO.
If you want to know more about the challenge, be informed of new developments, and receive notifications when we launch, email us at LittleInventors@nserc-crsng.gc.ca.
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Mission: protect our oceans!
A creative way to explore oceans in the classroom!
- Encourages children to explore their own creativity and become the inventive thinkers of the future
- Gives children the freedom and inspiration to use their imaginations and their STEAM learnings to provide solutions to real-world problems
- This year’s focus is on oceans, allowing Canadian youth to contribute to improving the health of oceans, seas and coasts
How can teachers and their schools participate?
- Students are invited to come up with invention ideas that will help to improve ocean health and create better conditions for the sustainable development of the ocean, seas and coasts
- Teachers will be supplied with online tools and a full resource pack to support the idea-generation phase with their students
- All invention ideas will be showcased on our website
- Selected students will work with a maker or artisan to develop their invention idea into a real object
- The winners will be announced in early 2021 during the launch of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development
'Life in Space' inventions and our journey to the ISS
We teamed up with the Canadian Space Agency to ask children in Canada to think up and draw their invention ideas for Life in Space.
We received 3000 designs from the ingenious to the brilliantly bonkers and 30 were made into real prototypes by expert makers.
The two winners were announced from the International Space Station by Canadian astronaut David Saint Jacques via video link to a large gathering of young people at the Canada Wide Science Fair in Fredericton, Canada.
Inventions for Space project at Canada wide science Fair!
Our Inventions for Space challenge concluded in spectacular style with a downlink from Canadian Space Agency Astronaut David Saint-Jacques live from the International Space Station!
We also exhibited a selection of our made real inventions for space, as a part of the Canada Wide Science Fair!
Calling all Canadian Makers!
Little Inventors turns children's ideas into reality with the help if our Magnificent Makers!
- Makers and artisans are involved form the start, meet the Little Inventors, and become part of their creative journeys!
- Magnificent Makers get profiled in our exhibitions and online galleries
- See last year's made inventions and get inspired!
I immediately got it, it was a really exciting project, it is a great way to push STEM in the communityHelios Makerspace, Montreal
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'Life in Space' inventions and our journey to the ISS
Little Inventors teamed up with the Canadian Space Agency and NSERC to ask children in Canada to think up and draw their invention ideas for Life in Space. We received 3000 designs from the ingenious to the brilliantly bonkers and 30 were made into real prototypes by expert makers. The two winners were announced from the International Space Station by Canadian astronaut David Saint Jacques via video link to a large gathering of young people at the Canada Wide Science Fair in Fredericton, Canada.
Winners of Canada-wide contest invent tools for easier life in space
The Canadian Space Agency challenged children across the country to come up with clever ideas that could be developed into inventions to make life in space easier and more fun.
Inventions for Space at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum
Find out more about some of our Canadian Little Inventors who invented for astronauts with our Inventions for Space Challenge!
Prime Minister Science Fair 2018!
Two of the Canadian inventions were presented to The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, at the Prime Minister's inspiring Science Fair in Ottawa. Our little inventors were two of 30 projects on display.
Astronaut attends LI Inventions for Space Exhibition in Canada
13 inventions designed for astronauts like David Saint-Jacques have been made into real things by Magnificent Makers from across Canada in the form of models, prototypes and even 3D drawings!
