Invention Convention Regionals

Introducing Reporters
Nick Kringle and
Brie Nadermann of Table Mound Elementary

Video by Gary Olsen
March 2, 2006

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Keystone AEA runs the Invention Convention, trains and deploys the judges, and through a rather complex evaluation process, selects students that will go from school site competitions to regionals (like this one) and ultimately to the Invention Convention State Finals in Des Moines.

This is also an opportunity for district TV producer, Gary Olsen, to try out some new talent. This tour is hosted by two new faces on the scene, Brie Nadermann and Nick Kringle. This is the first professional television broadcast for both of them, and they truly did an outstanding job interviewing the inventors and judges. We will no doubt be seeing more of Brie and Nick. Thanks to Mrs. Nelson, TAG coodinator at Table Mound, for casting these outstanding new talents.

Top photo is Nick and Brie in their innaugural tour as electronic journalists. Upper left is a strange new fruit picking invention. Above is the Metronominator (we think that's what it's called). Left is the gifted inventor of the "No Stink" solar-powered porta-potty fan and atomizered porta-potty fan and air-freshener, and below is Brie with a pair of inventors and their exciting new television chair.
Above, approximately 200 inventors from schools throughout the area participated. Nick Kringle with co-inventors of a snow shovel that also dispenses salt.
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