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Who’re you?
We’re Ruth Amos & Shawn Brown and we run ‘Children Invent Stuff’ the YouTube channel that brings to life youngsters’ invention concepts. We set invention challenges on our web site and children aged 4-11 ship of their invention concepts as photos and movies then every month we convey to life at the least considered one of these invention concepts.
We truly run a YouTube channel whereas being about 300 miles aside! We’re each within the U.Okay. Ruth is in Sheffield and Shawn is in Cornwall.
Do you attend a makerspace?We don’t attend a maker area as we’re very fortunate to have two beautiful little workshops to construct in. The principle youngsters invent stuff workshop in Cornwall and Ruth’s workshop in her again backyard.
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How did you get began?
After we first began Children Invent Stuff was an element time factor, however because it’s grown it takes up extra of our time. We each additionally do bits of public talking and presenting. We’ve additionally labored collectively on different initiatives for greater channels and manufacturing corporations.
What sorts of stuff do you make?
The enjoyment of the channel is that we make so many various issues. Every invention is so totally different. If we’re constructing slime firing gauntlets we’d use some 3D printing and pumps with an Arduino and a few fundamental coding. If we’re constructing an enormous furry electrical canine automotive then we’d have to do some welding and woodworking. Most initiatives use a number of supplies and making processes.
We each met at an Engineering competitors, however truly took very totally different routes. Ruth began an organization at 16 with a product she designed in school, and Shawn went to college and bought a level in renewable vitality after which a masters in fantastic artwork. Ruth spent her early profession bringing a product to market and doing plenty of work round stem engagement. Shawn was concerned in creating shows for museums, performs, and was a part of the Man Engine team- an enormous mechanical puppet. Each of us loved making and developed our expertise by way of totally different initiatives.
How did the channel begin?
We wished to do a mission to point out younger individuals how thrilling Engineering and making was. After plenty of dialogue we landed on youngsters invent stuff. We truly landed on the identify again in the summertime of Aug 2015. We self funded a pilot mission in 2016 and began constructing a youngsters invention thought each month in 2017. We favored the thought of being responsive and in a position to set a problem, select what to construct, construct it and movie it and get in on the channel in a matter of weeks. By means of our work in colleges we knew that youngsters had the most effective invention concepts!
Inform us about one mission you’re actually happy with. It’s arduous to simply select one factor that we’re happy with making. We’re each grateful for the help we’ve had from the maker group. We got here into this with 0 subscribers on our channel and neither of us had a ‘following’ it’s been by way of phrase of mouth. Additionally one thing we’re happy with is that 95% of fogeys or lecturers who’re concerned with submitting invention concepts say that the channel and challenges have modified their baby’s concepts of engineering in a optimistic method.
On the subject of making we’re happy with how we’ve developed our expertise over the previous couple of years from studying to weld to constructing greater invention concepts. I believe the musical was a type of initiatives
it was good to mix our love of engineering and musical in a enjoyable and entertaining method.
Inform us about some failures you’ve overcome.The mission that had probably the most failure was after we constructed an enormous Rube Goldberg Machine combing 60 youngsters invention concepts.
That mission took a complete of 10 days and we have been fortunate to have an even bigger crew than regular. The machine failed 73 instances and solely labored on the 74th run- we have been all excited when it lastly all ran!
What’s one thing you’d prefer to discover however haven’t but?
We’d like to do an even bigger musical that included extra makers. Primarily we simply need to preserve constructing youngsters invention concepts and be capable of construct greater and extra adventurous innovations.
Received any recommendation for individuals eager to do what you do?
For anybody wanting to begin constructing innovations or a channel, simply have a go. The primary time you do one thing you may discover it daunting or not know the place to begin however you solely studying by giving it a go!
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