Youngstown students let creative juices run for contest entries

YOUNGSTOWN

Thomas Edison invented the long-lasting light bulb.

Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.

Taelyn Childs invented magnifying reading glasses.

Taelyn, 11, a sixth-grader in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics program at Chaney Campus, devised his creation using a Shearer’s Potato Chips bag for the frames and magnifying plastic for the lenses.

“If you want to examine something, you can use these instead of using a microscope,” Taelyn explained.

He invented them for the Shearer Perfection Student Contest, which allows students in grades 4-8 to show off their creativity and ingenuity incorporating one or more of the potato-chip bags.

Some Chaney inventors’ creations did double duty. They entered them in both the Shearer’s contest and the Regional Invention Convention competition.

Read more about the contests and the creative entries from these Valley kids in Wednesday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.