Hey everyone, you are all invited to take part
in the 1st Annual Egg Launch Competition! For those of you that
remember this from Triton it was quite a lot of fun when we would do
this with Mr. Haven! Check out are event page at eventbrite and
order your tickets to take part, also download and fill out the forms
so we know who is participating and what your team names will be. This
should be quite a lot of fun for everyone!
"The challenge now is to transform education
systems into something better suited to the real needs of the 21st
century. At the heart of this transformation there has to be a radically
different view of human intelligence and creativity." - Ken Robinson
I
would like to thank our friends at google for giving The Christopher
Haven Foundation an amazing grant in free advertising on google adwords. It is
companies like google that know about the importance of creativity and
innovation!
"The key to success is to risk thinking
unconventional thoughts. Convention is the enemy of progress. If you go
down just one corridor of thought you never get to see what’s in the
rooms leading off it. "
We at the Christopher Haven Foundation are
proud to say we are happy to be helping mentor a team this year in the
FIRST Robotics Competition! It's amazing what young minds can do when
you have the ability to give them some inspiration and initiative to be
innovative and creative. One of the High School students on the FIRST
team we are mentoring just got accepted to MIT!
Adam Savage walks through two spectacular
examples of profound scientific discoveries that came from simple,
creative methods anyone could have followed -- Eratosthenes' calculation
of the Earth's circumference around 200 BC and Hippolyte Fizeau's
measurement of the speed of light in 1849.
This
is one of my all time favorite talks on creativity by actor/comedian
John Cleese. He does a great job of describing how the creative process
works and how important it is for coming up with good ideas in almost
every field.
"Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult." John Cleese