Here’s something to keep young minds active and let families take a look at what other young talented inventors have come up with!
Throughout the school holidays Bath Medical Museum – in conjunction with 44AD Artspace and The Museum of Bath at Work – are holding a Festival of Inventions – including the 2014 Bath Young Inventor of the Year competition.
Anyone interested can pick up an ‘Invent It’ leaflet – which outlines details of the competition – and also a free ‘Bath Inventors’ self-guided walking trail available from any of the Museums or the BID office in York Street.
The Medical Museum has arranged an exhibition of Medical Inventions from Monday July 29th to Sunday August 4th 12pm to 4pm at The Hetling Pump Room.
The exhibits range from a Victorian Douche, used in The Min for a hundred years, to some of the items that Andrew – a 22-year-old University of the West of England student – devised over the last year creating a prosthetic which has been taken up by a UK manufacturer.
In addition there are examples of six different inventions completed in 2024 by PhD students from the University of Bath, as well as a bullet extractor.
Amber, a student from Southamption University, will be leading two free guided ‘Invention Trail’ walks at 2pm on Tuesday July 30th and Wednesday July 31st. Meet at Bath Medical Museum.
On Thursday August 1st and Friday August 2nd from 10:30pm to 12pm there will be family hands on workshops to 12pm to help potential entrants create their own inventions fort he 2024 Bath Young Inventor of the Year Award (which closes on August 22nd).
It is free to enter and open to anyone irrespective of where you live. There are three categories, 11 and under, 12 to18 and the third category to devise an aid for the disabled.
Stuart Burroughs Director of MoBAW will be giving two talks at his museum at 11am on Saturday August 3rd and Saturday August 10th. The first ‘Artworks, Design and Innovation’ The second ‘Metalworks Design and Innovation’.
Aid for reaching items.
The closing date for BYIA is 22nd August. Entries can be handed in at Bath Medical Museum, 44AD Art Space or The Museum of Bath at Work or at one of the workshops, or descriptions/diagrams/instructions can be sent to bathyounginventors@gmail.com
All exhibits will be on display at 44AD, Abbey Green 28- 31st August and the prize giving ceremony will be at MoBAW on Saturday August 31st at 11am
