Creative Education

"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

Google Grants

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!

 

Think Outside The Box

"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. "

FIRST Robitics Competition 2013

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: How Simple Ideas Lead to Scientific Discoveries

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.

John Cleese on Creativity

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