Summer Learning Journey//Inventive Inventors//Day 3//Week 3//

DAY 3: INVENTIVE INVENTORS


Activity 1: Nanogirl [4 points]

Michelle Dickinson, AKA “Nanogirl”, is a nanotechnologist. That is an engineer or scientist who works with very small items called “molecules.” Michelle is famous for creating cool shows about science which she performs in schools around New Zealand. When she isn’t performing, she is working as a scientist in her own lab in Auckland. Over the years she has written two books and won many awards including the New Zealand Women of Influence in Innovation and Science Award and The New Zealand Order of Merit for her innovative work.

Like Michelle, many people in New Zealand like to create nano-sized (tiny) things. Some people even like to build tiny houses.

For this activity, please visit the ‘Build Tiny New Zealand’ website and scroll to the bottom of the page where you will find a series of Video Tours of tiny houses. Watch any three videos on the site.

On your blog, tell us whether, or not, you would like to live in a tiny house one day. Please be sure to tell us why you feel the way that you do.

The tiny houses is a great type of house you can drag it around at the back of your car and then looking for a site to stay at and then you can have your tiny house there and it's a house with enough for yourself and some other people. I also like how you can put things under the floor pad of the staircase and also pull your stairs out. I would like to live in a house like that.

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Activity 2: Printing Prosthetics [4 points]

In 1983 a man named Chuck Hull invented the first 3D printer. A 3D printer follows a design that has been created on a computer. The printer simply ‘prints out’ the design in layers, often using a material like plastic.

3D printing has changed the way we are designing and manufacturing (creating) all sorts of things. It is possible to 3D print parts for machines, buildings and even humans!

If you have ever broken an arm and needed a plaster cast you will know that they’re not much fun to wear - especially in summer! Here in New Zealand, a man named Jake Evill has designed a lighter 3D printed plaster cast that is strong, recyclable, waterproof, and ventilated (let’s air in). Check out his design here.

For this activity, we would like you to learn more about 3D printed prosthetics (artificial body parts, like hands or arms). Please watch this video about 3D printed prosthetics (artificial body parts, like hands or arms).

On your blog, tell your readers:

One thing that you learned from watching this video
One thing that surprised you when watching this video

The one thing that I learned was that kids without a hand could get a 3D Printed hand and it surprised me that they can make hands out of 3D printers and I was also surprised that they gave it out for free. 

What I think they are doing is amazing cause some kids around the world have to pay to get a 3D printed hand and sometimes they can just out grow it. So the fact the they gave it out for free probably should of restored a Mum or Dad's faith in the world.

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Activity 3: Need for Speed [6 points]

We have had many inventors here in New Zealand who have created things that have changed the world. Two of these inventors were Bill Hamilton (1899-1978) and John Britten (1950-1995).

Bill Hamilton grew up on a farm in the South Island of New Zealand. One of his first inventions was a tow rope to pull skiers up a ski field. His most famous invention, however, is the development of the modern jet boat engine. It allows boats, like the Huka Falls Jet, to travel at lightning speed along rivers. Bill Hamilton invented the jet boat to solve a problem.


John Britten, on the other hand, loved to rebuild vehicles, including motorbikes. He set up the Britten Motorcycle Company from his garage in Christchurch, New Zealand. One of his bikes, the V1000, won a number of international races and set a world speed record for going 304km per hour! Wow! Now that is fast…!


Speaking of fast, for this activity we would like you to design your own fast vehicle. It can be anything! Please draw your super-fast vehicle on paper or use an app to help you. If it was me, I would make my super-fast vehicle something that I could use to get to school and home again each day!

On your blog, post a picture of your speedy vehicle along with a written description of how it works. Tell your readers what your vehicle is made of, any special features, how fast it goes, and who might use your vehicle.

1970 Dodge Charger

Yes this is indeed Toretto's car from fast and furious well I like a lot about the car so I added a few things that I wanted in the car so.

I added a Nitrous Oxide Boost which helps my car go faster.

I would also add something that keeps the gas from coming out something that turns gas into more energy for the Nitrous Oxide boost,So it would be like a never ending boost and also protects air pollution. 

I would ask Elon Musk to teach me how to make your car move with a charger like the Tesla so I don't need gas. Always thinking about Pollution. I would also expand the charging limit to last like all day. 

I would make everything bullet proof for safety so lets say our president wanted to start a purge all I would need to do is to get in My car and that would keep me safe.  Sorry been watching to much movies.

A tracking device that tracks what ever car the bump into. 


Is it just me but this sounds like the prefect police car. If it was true most crime rates around the world would go lower and more people would be happier and that's my invention.