Local Camp Invention Program Now Available in Action-Packed, At-Home Format
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Camp Invention Offers All New At-Home format
Grand Prairie, Texas– May 17, 2021 – Camp Invention®, a nationally recognized, nonprofit summer enrichment program, is offering Grand Prairie area children an all-new, at-home format of the program the week of June 21 – June 25, 2021.
Camp Invention at home reaches far beyond what families have come to expect from “virtual” learning balancing active, independent hands-on exploration with opportunities for socialization from home.
A hybrid program featuring both offline activities and optional online sessions, the at-home Camp Invention format enables hands-on exploration by delivering an Innovator’s Toolkit, packed full of fun materials, directly to each participant. With four themed activities, step-by-step guides and an Innovator Workshop, the program brings imagination, creative problem solving and fun to children’s living rooms.
Inventor of Post-it Note adhesive made something people didn t know they needed, says wife
Spencer Silver, the inventor of the adhesive used on one of 3M s best-known products, the Post-it Note, died May 8. He was 80.
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Posted: May 14, 2021 4:37 PM ET | Last Updated: May 14
Spencer Silver, the inventor of the adhesive used on one of 3M s best-known products, the Post-it Note, died at his home in Minnesota on Tuesday, May 8.(3M via AP)
As It Happens6:32Inventor of Post-it Note adhesive made something people didn t know they needed, says wife
When Linda Silver and her husband Spencer first started seeing Post-it Notes on television, they d give each other a little nudge. But as time went on, the couple got used to seeing them everywhere.
Spencer Silver
Credit: 3M via AP
Spencer Silver, who has died aged 80, was an American scientist credited with the co-invention of the ubiquitous yellow Post-it note: a product that arose out of a failed experiment and took 12 years to come to fruition.
In 1968 Silver, a research chemist for the American conglomerate 3M, was attempting to create a powerful new adhesive that he hoped would have a use in the construction of aircraft. Made of acrylic microspheres, it was both insoluble and heat-resistant, and peeled off surfaces without leaving a residue. However, in one respect it was a disaster: it was too weak to keep anything heavier than a piece of paper in place.