Inspirational presentation delivered to 3rd grade TAG students as part of their unit about "inventions"

1. How Inventions
Make the World
Awesome!
TAG 3RD GRADE “INVENTIONS UNIT” PRESENTATION
FEBRUARY 8, 2017
BY DARA ALBRIGHT, CROWDFINANCE EXPERT & MOM
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2. Inventions Are Imaginations
that Come to Life
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3. Inventions Are Very Important to Society
They create products that make our lives easier,
safer, healthier and more fun
They create jobs so that more and more people
can prosper
And every once in a while an invention comes
along that changes the world
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4. There are many different kinds of
inventions
An invention can be a new product
An invention can be a new service
An invention can be a new process or way of
doing something
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5. Henry Ford Did NOT Invent the Car
– He Brought it to the Masses
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6. What Does it Take to be
an Inventor?
*Great idea or A Vision
*Hard work
*Knowledge
*Persistence
*The Courage to Fail
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7. People Who Come up With New Ideas
Are Called Visionaries
“The visionary starts with a
clean sheet of paper, and
re-imagines the world.”
– Malcolm Gladwell
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8. Not Everyone Is a Visionary
“Everything that can
be invented has been
invented.”
Charles Duell (Commissioner, U.S. Patent Office, 1899
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9. Inventions After 1899
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11. Famous Inventors
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12. Failing is One Step
Closer to Succeeding
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13. Thomas Edison, Inventor & Stoic
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A stoic is one who transforms fear into prudence, pain into
transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.
OVER
1,000
Inventions!

14. Hard work & Persistence
The Story of the Car Radio
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15. Never, Never, Never Give Up
And remember that
sometimes our most crushing
failures lead us to our most
valued accomplishments!
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16. America is the Best Country on the
Planet
America grants its citizens the
freedom to invent and profit
from one another’s inventions
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17. This basic principle transformed America from a
vast farmland to the greatest economic
superpower in the history of the world
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18. American Ingenuity
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19. Be crazy and change the world!
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