Turning children’s whacky ideas into real life engineering projects

RS Components is sponsoring the vlog channel, ‘Kids Invent Stuff’. Kids Invent Stuff is a YouTube channel where children, aged from five to 11 years old, get the chance to have their ideas or inventions actually made real by engineers. The objective of the channel is to provide primary school aged children with the chance to engage with real engineering projects. Each month, children submit their ideas for inventions to solve a different challenge. One idea is then chosen, built and tested on camera, often with hilarious consequences. “If we are going to succeed in encouraging more children into careers in engineering, we need to inspire them at an early age and introduce them to the wealth of possibilities that engineering opens up,” said Lindsley Ruth, CEO of RS. “We need to do this in an engaging way and before they make selective choices about the subjects that they will study at school.” “The enthusiasm that we get from the children and the unbridled creativity of their ideas is brilliant. When we transform these ideas into reality we are showing children, that through the power of engineering, anything is possible,” said Ruth Amos, presenter and inventor at Kids Invent Stuff. “Our theme for August is an invention to entertain kids on a long car journey. The challenge-setting episode was released on 8 July and all children are welcome to submit their ideas.”