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Creative Ideas are the fuel of Innovation.  We help students learn how to access those ideas that can change the world!

The How to Be an Inventor program can be taught in classrooms in a 1, 3 or 6 hour sessions or consecutively over a period of time.

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Based on the research-based SIT methodology, we will learn how creative-ideas are birthed through following patterns. The concept is that if we start with a product that we have in our hand, we can create something new and innovative by following these 5 patterns.

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Although used by thousands of companies worldwide to develop new and innovative ideas, it is a process taught around the world to students at every level. Our approach for grade 5-12 students introduces the concepts of how ideas are usually iterative and build-upon existing ideas.

 

We work through a series of exercises where students will try out new ways of innovating, ending with a project that will have the students inventing an item of their own choice using the tools that we have introduced.

 

We recommend the Systemic Inventive Thinking approach to innovative thinking as it is an evidence-based, practical model to enhance reflective thinking skills, convergent and divergent creative-thinking skills and critical thinking skills. The model is flexible enough to allow users to understand and apply its concepts at all age and skill levels.

 

Our focus is on students in Grades 5-12 to help them learn the model using every-day household items as examples and apply one of the five methodologies to understand what might be possible. As mastery of the 4 out of the 5 models is acquired, we encourage students to look for more sophisticated products or services to innovate. Systemic Inventive Thinking starts with a product, re-creates it and then looks to understand if it can solve a problem.

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Founder and President, Marguerite Mcleod-Fleming


Marguerite was inspired to bring the System Inventive Thinking model into the classroom after having witnessed firsthand how students were able to quickly see possibilities to invent new products and services that could actually become true innovations.

 

Marguerite worked with the SIT organization and taught the methodology at the University of Toronto and York University.

 

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The elegance of the SIT Inventive-Thinking System

The elegance of the SIT model is that it is sophisticated enough to be in use with thousands of companies around the world but simple enough to be understood and applied by 8 year olds. 

Simply put, most innovation or invention techniques require you to start with the problem first. The only problem is that in real life, we start with what we have and try to adapt it to solve our problems afterwards. When we start off trying to solve problems, our ability to be creative is diminished as all possibilities are potentially viable. 

Systemic Inventive Thinking suggests that the best innovations are within close range of the original product/service – we just need to break our fixed thinking to see it.
I am excited to bring these solutions to educators who are looking for new, exciting and real-world creative problem-solving techniques to teach inventive thinking skills to students.

Please join us by downloading your free Invention vs. Innovation Worksheet and please request our Free 5-Part How To Be An Inventor program.

We love feedback and would love to hear from you about your experiences and if we can add anything to the programs.

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