Danbury Students Bring Inventions to State Competition

From Danbury Public Schools: Sixteen Danbury students were selected at a regional invention competition to present their inventions at the 34th annual Connecticut Invention Convention on April 29 at the University of Connecticut Storrs.

More than 130 Connecticut schools and hundreds of students participate in the CIC each year. The regional invention convention took place April 1 at Western Connecticut State University.

Students representing the Danbury district at the state level are:

From Westside Middle School Academy: Sebastian Beaver, Timothy Chen, Kayti Kull, Brendan Stein, Malcom Thompson and Jacob Williams. Elementary school students are: Jonah Gale from Hayestown; Nico LaRosa from King Street; Allysen Whitehead from Shelter Rock; and Ryan Ceylan and Ava Kuehn. From South Street Elementary School: Juliet Dahlstrom, Faith Evans, Daira Lopez, Kelly Salinas and Angel Velastegui.

Jacob Williams will present his “Safety Garage,” which can automatically open the garage doors to fresh air after detecting carbon monoxide. The detector is connected to a light that turns on a light when smoke is detected, signaling the door to open. Sebastian Beaver will bring his “The Stay Put USB,” a simple invention using Legos and Superglue to hold a USB cord to a charging cube.

The Invention Convention is part of the science curriculum. For three weeks students engage in coming up with ideas and putting them into motion. One of the crucial learning curves for students is to figure out how to solve problems with their inventions and tweak them to perfection. The invention convention fosters interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics learning for students from kindergarten through eighth grade.

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