The Inventors Academy - For the Inventor That's in Every Child
There is an incredible inventor inside every child and in this class they will design inventions that only they can dream into the world. We'll imagine, draw and share our ideas, to inspire, be inspired and have a lot of fun.
Susie Maguire
Average rating:
4.9
Number of reviews:(2,744)
What's included
1 live meeting
55 mins in-class hoursClass Experience
June 2023 update: After three incredible years hosting my classes on Outschool, it's time for new adventures and new ways of sharing my classes and content with the children of the world. The Inventors Academy is a class where ideas of all kinds travel from inside our imaginations, out into the world, as drawings and sketches, that we share with each other. Special Note: This class can be taken as many times as your child would like, because as with my Imaginarium Class, every Inventors Academy class its different. The class begins with an explanation of what an invention is ... essentially, a creative solution to a perceived problem or limitation. For example, I often would like just one fresh baked chocolate chip cookie. I don't want to get all the ingredients out and make dough for just one, nor do I want to turn the oven on for just one cookie, so I invented "The Maker Baker 3000 - the just one cookie maker and baker"! Of course it's not real just yet, but the first step to making something real, is imagining it. And that's what we do in this class. We imagine our inventions and then we draw a blueprint for what our inventions would look like, and how they would work. Children are bursting with ideas for inventions, and they will have free rein in the class to imagine anything they want, inspired by the challenges that they see in their world, or the world at large. I will also guide and offer idea sparks to help inspiration along if needed. (Please note that we are not building prototypes of our inventions in this class, we are following in the footsteps of all great inventors by first getting our ideas onto paper, as a sketch.) Every child will have the chance to share their inventions with the class and be celebrated and applauded. I am an inveterate maker and creator and a passionate believer in the power of imagination and the creative mind. I am SO excited to offer this class to help children discover the unique inventor that lives inside them and to help them expand and explore their innate creative genius.
Other Details
Supply List
All that's needed for this class is pens, markers, pencils, crayons and paper. A ruler and a pair of scissors are optional extras.
3 files available upon enrollment
External Resources
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
Susie Maguire
4.9
2744reviews
Teacher expertise and credentials
Hi!
June 2023 update: After three incredible years hosting my classes on Outschool, it's time for new adventures and new ways of sharing my classes and content with the children of the world.
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My name is Susie and I am delighted and incredibly proud to have been one of Outschool's Top Educators in 2022 with the most learners enrolled across the platform. I am profoundly grateful to all of the families who enrol their remarkable children in my classes and for the time that I get to spend with them. My two and a half years on Outschool have been an honour and a privilege and I am excited for an amazing 2023 for everyone.
I have been an entrepreneur since I first started creating lemonade stands as a child. I love nothing more than turning ideas into things, adventures, songs, stories, poems and art! I have been very blessed to have some of the worlds biggest companies (Unilever, Philips, Ericsson, PepsiCo and Facebook to name a few) hire me to help them have fabulous ideas and turn them into real things.
More than ever, the world needs ideas, innovations and inventions! It needs the ideas, innovations and inventions of you and your children. Creativity is the Number #1 skill now wanted by business', and it is the Number #1 skill they say they will need in the future.
But sadly, it's estimated that as many as 80% of people never share their best idea!
It is my mission to help as many kids as possible, learn to value, use and explode their imagination and creativity. Every child has ideas that the world needs, important ideas. Ideas unique to them. Ideas that only they can ever, ever have.
I want kids to feel how powerful their imagination can make them - turning them into creators of gadgets, mods, apps, songs, stories, adventures, buildings, life saving devices, environment saving innovations, new recipes, movies, TV shows, symphonies!! Anything and everything.
Henry David Thoreau once said "I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day that I was born." I believe that children are profoundly wise and brilliant and full of limitless potential. My teaching style reflects this. Children are my favourite kind of human beings, and where I have had the privilege to spend time with them - in libraries, schools, nurseries, or at the incredible Institute of Imagination in London - I always feel honoured by their presence, inspired by their genius, and delighted by their ideas and their hilarity.
My classes are full of fun, full of creativity and awash with imagination! There's also a dash of mischief and magic!
Outschool says I should tell you something fun about myself! So here's two things. I once lived without shoes for six months :-) as an experiment. (It was awesome!) and before I had my son, I travelled with my Teddy Bear, and he has his own passport.
If you're interested, here is a bit more about me ...
I am blessed to have travelled to more than 80 countries in the world. I've travelled in the Arctic and slept in the Ice Hotel. I've crossed the Atlantic Ocean twice and had iceberg ice in my soda. I've travelled in the Sahara Desert for weeks and seen a total eclipse of the sun from the top of a sand dune. I've stayed in a castle in India, walked the Great Wall of China, jumped off a bridge in New Zealand and out of a plane in Australia. And that's the short list!
I have travelled to 60 of these countries with my son. The two of us have had amazing and magical adventures together the world over, as we world schooled, and enjoyed life together. We have been so lucky to call Canada, the USA, France, The Netherlands and the UK home. He is now 19 and enjoying his own adventures at college. I am ridiculously proud of him, and it has been the privilege of my life to be his mom.
I am an award winning storyteller and have been telling stories and helping children create stories for nearly 20 years - in lots of different countries. I've even taught teachers how to help children create their own stories.
I feel like I have lived an extraordinary life, and given my son an extraordinary life too and I think that is because I live from a place of imagination and ideas and creativity. I agree with Einstein on most things, but especially that "Imagination is more important than knowledge."Reviews
Live One-Time Class
$20
per classMeets once
55 min
Completed by 1481 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 5-10
1-8 learners per class
