The Patents Office has launched the Junior Inventor Awards 2011. The Awards, which is now in its fourth year, seeks to encourage primary school children to demonstrate their creativity and inventiveness, and hopefully sow the seeds of interest in the sciences and engineering at an early age.
Entries can include any idea for an invention that solves an everyday problem for example the GPS system in cars or the dishwasher – ideas that makes life better or easier.
The competition was originally launched by the Patents Office to mark its contribution to World Intellectual Property Day, which falls on 26 April.
This year’s competition is divided into two class categories – first to third class and fourth to sixth class – with one overall winner who will be presented with the Junior Inventor Award 2011.
Prizes will be awarded in each category and the first placed winners in each category will also receive a prize for their schools.
Launching the competition, Eamonn Laird, controller of patents, designs and trademarks, said: “The Junior Inventor Awards has proved very popular with primary school teachers and pupils and has gone from strength to strength since its inception.”
The closing date for entries is Friday 15 April. For more information visit www.patentsoffice.ie.
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