Kids Invent Camp on 17th December 2010 in Singapore-Photo of the Happy Kids.
Kids Invent is a program that develops and fosters 21st century skills.
It is a wildly creative workshop for children aged 6 to 14 years. It inculcates skills like critical thinking, problem solving, communication, collaboration, creativity & innovation. It ignites these qualities through a hands-on experience through a child’s natural instinct to play. (http://atc21s.org)
(KI!) camps were created by Edwin Sobey, Ph.D., author of “Inventing Stuff,” a kid’s guide to inventing and creativity, and executive producer/host of “The Idea Factory,” a television show on science, technology and creativity for kids in U.S.A.
During the Camp, the children will create their own Toys.
7 Benefits for your Child
• Stimulate creative instincts through Invention
• Help participants understand and utilize scientific principles through experimentation
• Develop tactile & co-ordination skills by building mock-ups
• Help develop a problem-solving mindset to improve on designs.
• Improve language & presentation skills
• Demonstrate the value of teamwork
• Encourage spirit of Entrepreneurship
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An entrepreneur is someone who has a vision and ability to execute his plans. But not everyone is cut out to be one.
Professor Dr Timothy Stearns from Lyles Center for Innovation & Engrepreneurship, California State University, Fresno talks about what it takes to keep your business afloat in today’s competitive world.
He has helped many start up companies realize their dreams.
In this interview on Prime Time Morning, Channel News Asia, with Otelli Edwards and Steven Chia he shared some tips on how to become a successful and innovative entrepreneur.
Transcript of Live CNA Interview on Thursday 6th January 2011 in Singapore.
By: DS
Steven : Have you thought of becoming your own boss?
Otelli : I sure have … now … one person who could just do that is our next guest, he’s Professor Dr. Timothy Stearns, an expert in entrepreneurship who’s helped many setup companies realize their dreams.
Steven : And he’s said that he can you share with us some tips on how to get that right now. Good morning Tim, welcome to the show..
Tim Good morning to you. Thank you for having me … Singapore is such a beautiful place. I enjoy being back here..
Steven : Oh, you’ve been here before?
Tim Been here a few times…
Steven : Yeah?
Otelli : Escaping the cold?
Tim Well… California is not too bad … but it isn’t all that colder…
Steven : Well, you had some snow… let’s talk about the starting up of companies. You’ve helped many companies start up. What do you find as often the most difficult … perhaps obstacles right at the start, that young entrepreneurs may not be aware of?
Tim Well, I think young or old, I think the key is understanding what your product is. Many people come up with an idea … they get a product but then they are not quite sure how to link that to a customer. And of course, if you do not have a customer… it doesn’t matter how the product operates or how good it is. That to me is a fundamental challenge for anyone. Because it is hard with a new product or a new idea to figure out who exactly wants it. I try to remind entrepreneurs all the time that you are not the customer and that you have to rely on someone else to buy your product eventhough you love your product.
Otelli : And how do you test that out … to see will people dig your product?
Tim Well, you spend a lot of time in front of customers to get feedback. Most people who come up with a product idea… they give it to their friends. I’ve always told them that your friends are liars…. They always tell you that they love it. They are not the best source for giving you the truth about the product. We try to give it to people who are willing to make a very honest response about it and to get feedback and to try to determine whether or not that product is exactly what it needs to be in terms of coming into market with the product.
Steven : Is that the first essential step, knowing whether it will work or not in the market?
Tim Absolutely!! And secondly, I think this is vitally important, is that the individual needs to have the ability to pursue the entrepreneurial process with a great deal of dedication. Many people retire from it very quickly.
Otelli : And speaking of the product “facebook” … that’s a really good product and the founder, …
Tim We all will love to have a little bit of that… that’s really unusual. You know, probably 1 out of a hundred companies that are launched and formed really are companies that try to move forward into a high scale high value company. Most people try to build a company that will give them a nice life style… something that will support them, provide education for their kids and so on….
Steven : How important is it for the person. I know of entrepreneurs who are really passionate about what they do but sometimes when I look at them … I think this guy don’t quite have the business acumen to run a business. Should there be 2 sides to an ideal entrepreneur… one that can look at the content and one that also sells?
Tim Yeah, it helpful if you know something about the business. You take someone like Steve Jobs … he’s not really a business person but he’s a good person to cast a vision and put people around him that can move that business forward. So, if you don’t have strong business schools, you can find people who can do that. And that to me gets into the whole notion of innovative leadership which I think is vitally important. Is that in any company, whether its entrepreneurial startup or a large scale company needs someone at the leadership level or people around them that understand how to be innovative. Particularly as we’re moving into the 21st century with all the globalization going on and the pressures that are coming about on markets and demand has become a much competitive place.
Otelli : So in other words, you don’t necessary need to be born with entrepreneurship skills … if you surround yourself with the right people, you can still make things happen.
Tim I think of it this way… you’re the conductor, you’re not the musician. You’re the person who needs to find the best flutist, the best basist, the best percussionist… if you’re better than the person playing the music, you probably shouldn’t be the conductor. You should be sitting there playing the music. And so, the leader of an organization, and this is part of the innovative process and entrepreneurial skills set, is the person who knows how to make good music out of the orchestra out of people who have the competencies and skills to be great.
Steven : And that can be hard … especially when you are starting out… its just I, me and myself you know… and to get a group of people to … so, you are good at creating the software, creating the product but to get the other people to jump on the bandwagon with you might not be so easy.
Tim Yeah. You’re washing the bottles in the kitchen… especially when you’re starting off. That’s part of the requirement for the stamina. That’s what you look for. Can you go through this process when you are going through the early stage … have to be everything … have to struggle… you better think its fun not work. Otherwise, you’re not going to make it.
Otelli : Moving off the beginning stage… you’re getting some results. How do you guide a company through so that they reach the global level?
Tim Well, we look at what their goals are… you always want to conform to what it is the vision of the individual and what they are trying to accomplish. So you spend a lot of time with them trying to figure out are you trying to turn this into a large global enterprise? Or are you just happy to have a nice convenient store on the corner that’s going to service the neighbourhood or you want to do it simply in your bedroom at a computer selling product over the web.
Otelli : Isn’t that like thinking small? Isn’t the whole objective is really to think big and even if you have a convenient store…. to turn it into a 7-11 or…?
Tim I tell people … think big first because you can scale back later. Its hard to think small and scale up and so at the beginning stage, you want to get a vision of what the potential is. Then you can come down and say : “ok, I’m happier here or this is where I want to be …I don’t want to put that extra energy that extra effort, the harder labour to try to scale it up.
Steven : So you have to have an end goal in sight.. as you got to know what’s at the end of the rainbow and then decide where along the rainbow you would decide to stop?
Tim You as the individual will have to know where you’re going. Otherwise, you’ll come up with confused decision.
Steven : Well, I guess that’s what often happens cos as you’re planning …you think maybe we can try and do this … but things keep changing all the time.
Tim Part of the challenge for me … and what we work hard on is trying to get into the educational process entrepreneurial skills development and in fact where we are in California, we’ve created what we call the innovative pathway. The innovative pathway is where we go into elementary school, secondary schools, technical schools and colleges and we try to give people as they move through this pathway the skills set that they need to be successful. We think that this is important to become innovative leader in the future.
Otelli : Very quickly just before we wrap up, if I was going to start up a company tomorrow or next week … what are the 3 fundamental things that I need to know before I start embark?
Tim Are you willing to make the commitment? Do you have a good idea and you have already tested the idea that people want it? Thirdly, do you have the potential to gather the money to support the business and grow it?
21st Century Skills through Kids Invent etc Part 1-2 Taken from Prime Time Morning, Channel News Asia on 27th December 2010
“As the first Director of the National Inventors Hall of Fame in the US, Dr Ed Sobey met and interviewed the world’s most famous inventors, like those who developed the MRI and the CAT Scan. He discovered that though they were not the best students, they turned out to be truly successful inventors. After talking to them, he developed a programme to enhance creativity in children. Dr Sobey joins us in the studio to give his insight on how children learn best.”
Now he helped create the National Inventors Hall of Fame in the US which honours those responsible for great technological advances that make progress possible as the first Director there.
Dr Ed Sobey met and interviewed the world’s most famous inventors including those who developed the MRI the CAT Scan and Cardiac Pace Makers and it was then that he found out that while these inventors were not the best students in schools they turned out to be the most successful inventors.
Dr Ed Sobey then incorporated what he learned from them into a programme called KidsInvent to help kids succeed.
He was in the studio to tell us more about the programme and his passion for Creativity and Invention and the interview was started by asking him how he got interested in teaching kids toys.
Are the ways that kids learn about the world and so is the best avenue to get a kid in learning about Science?
Do you think it’s suitable for every age? Though I mean kids play toys at young age but how do you get them interested and to understand the concept as you are trying to from a very you know young age?
Well children learn by playing and they play mostly with toys and that goes on up through people entering graduate schools.
We do the same activities like building the electric car with a child in elementary school in middle school in high school and college and graduate school. And there is learning at every level because there is real activity.
They get to express what they already know and then get to ask questions about what they don’t know.
So let’s see. You brought in a few toys this morning. I mean this is an electric car. For example this one, I mean is a simple version of what I guess we see in normal toy cars. What is the lesson that one would learn from this?
They can learn by building this. About a quarter of the physical science curriculum standards for the entire year, they would learn in building this. Plus they also learn the method of Ccience because this is an experimentation.
I don’t tell them how to build the car. I give them the material. I say can you guys build an electric car? And kids say oh yeah we can do that.
I say ok go do it and of course the kids say tell me how. I am not going to tell you how you have to figure it out for yourself.
So they are actually doing Science and that is what we are really promoting-kids doing Science. Kids in school do not do Science. Here they do Science and they learn and they learn very quickly.
Break it down from me. Let’s say I hand these components to my son and I tell him ok I want you to learn Science. I want you to put these together. But don’t you need to start with teaching them the concept?
No, no, no, listen first. Listen first. Give them the good stuff first. This is where they will learn the other stuff is memorization. That is not effective in learning.
Yes they can pass the exam but they will fail the exam of life. When I give this to a Science teacher, the same project, the Science teacher has no advantage over a six, seven, eight year old child.
They may have a Degree in Science. They are no better at building the car because everything is memorization. If I give it to them and they build the car now they understand electricity, friction, motion, acceleration, velocity.
We are going right across the Physical Science spectrum. They may not understand in those terms but they are doing it and we will teach everything they need to know about electricity in about a minute and a half by playing with this. And they will never forget it for the rest of their lives.
All I have to do is say oh that is polarity. Oh that is reverse polarity, and it goes the other way. So the only thing that is lacking is the vocabulary and we can have that later, that is not important.
What’s important is they learn and they also have to learn that they enjoy the process. Instead of kids saying I hate science they say i love science.
I want to do more so they can actually see it right in front of their eyes and they own it. It’s their car. I don’t tell them how to do it. They could have made it a triangle or square or oblong. They can put the motor anywhere. They did it, it’s their product.
My start was National Inventors Hall of Fame. I was the Founding Director. I met all the great inventors of the world and I ask them why are you a great inventor? And they told me. And then I go home at night and I work with my two sons and I saw the same motivation in my sons that I saw in the inventor of the MRI, the CAT scan, the Cardiac Pace Maker, exactly the same.
We have bottled that in this approach to learning Science making kids inventors. And while we make them an inventor, then they own the project. They want to know more. Instead of saying is this on the exam, they say I want my car to go faster.
So you are really just trying to create the interest to learn and they sort of experiment for themselves ………
Transcribed by: RC
This video was a pre-recorded interview on 16th December 2010, by Suzanne and Steven from Prime Time Morning, Channel News Asia, in Singapore.
21st Century Skills through Kids Invent etc Part 2-2 Taken from Prime Time Morning, Channel News Asia on 27th December 2010
Steven Chia CNA —SC
Suzanne Jung CNA—SJ
Dr Ed Sobey—KIdsinvent—ES
SC—Science is in our everyday life. We talk about a more technological style here. You have a simple toy here which has to do with straws. Show us how that works and what will that teach us?
ES—This is a wonderful activity to get kids doing science. We show them how to make them. It will take them a while to figure out on their own. It’s a big straw. I went into a coffee stall to swipe one of these.
And a regular straw. Just tape one end. We show them and blow, and boom…….a good one will go 20 metres. But the first time they do, it will go 2 or 3 meters.
So, they have to observe, which kids are not used to normally do and report. “Oh my rocket went to the left”.
I ask them: “Why did it go to the left?” “I don’t know!”. Well there’s something on the rocket that force it to go to the left. We teach them the basics: observe, report, and associate the cause and effect. Make one change.
Not one school has done. Everyone is in such a rush to tell them potential energy, kinetic energy, giving them all the terms and never giving them the basics of observing, reporting and associating the cause and effect.
SJ—So, in a way you are asking them a question and they have to find their own answers, you don’t give it to them.
ES—That’s right. I keep asking them questions. Your brain does not work if you don’t start thinking until you have a question. If I give you an answer, your brain stops working. So, I ask them a question and then a challenge.
SC—Could it be due to our impatient nature and our instant society that we are looking for the answers right away and not the process of getting there?
ES— I think that will certainly contribute to it that we can go on line and get everything in an instance. If you want scientists, engineers, and inventors, and also artists and musicians, to be creative and make new products and services for the next millennium, they need to have the patience to watch what’s going on around the world and take that in and be creative with it. If we are in such a hurry to tell them everything, they will never be able to create things.
SJ— Ok, point taken, so in order to teach our kids to do what you have just spoken of, how do you teach the enlightened adults to use that method because they have their own methods?
ES— That’s the biggest problem, cos parents and teachers are in such a rush to the end. What they have to do is to stop and ask the question. It doesn’t matter if you do not know the answer. It’s the question that’s important, it drives thinking. The answer stops the thinking.
SC—-I guess the hard part is getting, sort of, they are afraid of… I guess that sometimes maybe the kids more are clued in to what is the actual exam question…
ES— The kids know what interest them. They know what they know what they are capable of learning. All we got to do is to give them challenges, give them questions and they will rise to the occasion.
SJ—What’s in it that parents have to bear in mind if they want to do this? Besides throwing questions at them, you also have to guide them along.
ES—Well, to some degree, you have to guide them by providing them materials and providing questions and listening to them. You are not in such a rush to say you’re going to be here, you’re going to be there. Listen to what the child is interested in and we are going to encourage and keep going and try to expose them to new things. It’s the interaction with new people, new concepts and new ideas that spawns the new creative thought processes.
END –Transcribed by VH
This video was a pre-recorded interview on 16th December 2010, by Suzanne and Steven from Prime Time Morning, Channel News Asia, in Singapore.
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Professor Dr Ed Sobey is the co-founder of Kids Invent. Kids Invent is a family of programmes that helps kids become creative, inventive and entrepreneurial.
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Professor Dr Ed Sobey helped create the National Inventors Hall of Fame in the United States. As the first Director there, he met and interviewed the world’s most famous inventors such as those who invented the MRI, the CAT Scan and the Cardiac Pace Makers.
From them he learned why they were successful. He found out that they were not the best students in school, but yet they turned out to be the most successful inventors.
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RSS (Rich Site Summary) is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it.
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A variety of RSS Readers are available for different platforms. Some popular feed readers include Amphetadesk (Windows, Linux, Mac), FeedReader (Windows), and NewsGator (Windows – integrates with Outlook). There are also a number of web-based feed readers available. My Yahoo, Bloglines, and Google Reader are popular web-based feed readers.
Once you have your Feed Reader, it is a matter of finding sites that syndicate content and adding their RSS feed to the list of feeds your Feed Reader checks. Many sites display a small icon with the acronyms RSS, XML, or RDF to let you know a feed is available.
When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality. – Dom Helder Camara
Our vision is that we become a nation of innovators.
Every individual has the right to dream the success they want; which they will achieve if they are shown the way.
Our mission is to develop innovative leaders of tomorrow.
Together at Global BusinessOwners, we grow and achieve, leveraging and building on each individual’s strengths while working on the weaknesses.
We support and enable everybody, young and old alike, to move from employees to become self-employed and those who are self-employed to become business owners and investors (Robert Kiyosaki’s cash flowquadrant).
The end objective ~ the ability to do what we want whenever we want.
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One factor is having the correct mindset. One well known example is that everybody said that no man can run the mile in under four minutes. Therefore from the beginning of time until 6 May 1954 no one could do it, but on that day Roger Bannister did it.
Once he did it 37 more did it within a two-year period because it became possible in the minds of humans. The mind is a powerful thing. Check it out.
Another factor is that you need to know the desired results. Therefore you must set goals. And then you track your goals using the appropriate tools.
I would like to invite you to watch the following video showing Tony Robbins being interviewed by Frank Kern and John Reese.
Tony said: “In this interview I meet with two very successful students, Frank Kern and John Reese. Both of them are self-made multi millionaires who made their fortunes by selling products on the Internet. What’s particularly interesting about both of them is that neither had any “real” education. Neither one finished college and they both went from being broke to becoming wealthy.
And they still continue to thrive in today’s economy. So the purpose of this interview is to uncover the traits that successful people have in common. Specifically, the traits that cause them to take massive action and follow through. As you’ll see, the solution is really quite simple and available to us all.”
After watching it we can say that the sky is the limit, especially if you watch it again and again once a week.
I hope you have learned alot from this video. Here I would like to reiterate some parts of this interview.
Tony talks about the factors that give people the drive to take action.
Often we are unwilling to take action until our back is up against the wall, that is, when we have run out of options.
We don’t take action because we don’t have a clear picture of our “Why”. We don’t have clear goals that really drive us.
Tony also talks about our mindset. He gave the example of the 4 minute mile. For many years it was believed that no human could run the mile in less than 4 minutes.
However, Roger Bannister overcame that barrier in his mind and then on the track. In the two years following his achievement, the barrier was broken 37 times. Why? Because the perception was changed. Now it was possible.
He talks about the Belief-Potential-Action-Results-Belief Cycle.
When you don’t believe something is going to happen for you, you’ll believe that there is little potential. Then you will take little action and have lousy results. That will weaken your belief and you go into a downward spiral.
But when you are filled with absolute Certainty (highest level of belief), you see that the potential is certain. You will then take massive actions and get great results. That will create more belief thus creating a rising cycle. You will achieve Momentum.
That is also why the rich get richer or the poor get poorer.
So How To Succeed?
We start by getting the results in our head. That made it Certain. It is as if it had already happened.
That will strengthen our potential and drive us to the massive actions that will create the results we desire.
Kids Invent Camp on 17th December 2010 in Singapore-Photo of the Happy Kids.
