These are my ideas for invention convention:

• A foldable puppet show that folds into something easy to carry
• A cat obstacle course
• A custom cat toy
• Something that shows you your stove and doors at night so you can make sure everything is locked without leaving bed
• A foldable playground/obstacle course for boring backyards
• An umbrella heater for eating outside or walking long distances in the cold
• A button on your bike so when you are biking and you are too far away from your parents then you press it and your parents will get an alert on their bike
• A pop-socket to hide things in
• A slot for your purse for your boarding pass when you are flying
• A book with a built-in light
• Clothes your cat will actually like
• An ice maker that dispenses food and juices

• How did having limited time to play the game impact your teamwork?
• It didn’t really affect us but some people got distracted because things weren’t working
  • What strategies might you use to help this?
  • I would add another strategy which would be “make sure everyone is helping”
    • What tips would you suggest to others?
  • I would suggest to others that everyone should make sure everyone is helping in some way
• How did having limited time impact or shape your thinking during the game?
• It didn’t really affect my thinking
  • What strategies might you use to support your thinking?
  • I would use “make sure you are clicking on everything” because we missed something because we didn’t click on everything
  • What tips would you suggest to others?
  • I would suggest making sure you are looking closely at everything
• In what way(s) were your critical thinking and strategies different during the timed games than they were during the initial games?
• This game was definitely a lot harder so everyone got kind of frustrating so I don’t think we worked as well as we could have
• What Top 3 strategies/tips would you suggest to others when playing a timed game?
• I would add some and they would be;
• Don’t let the timer stress you out
• Click on everything
• Read all of the instructions before you start

• What did you notice or observe during this challenge?

I noticed that to solve the codes you had to pay attention to the pictures and look closely

• What kind of questions did you ask yourself (meta)?

I asked myself “what kind of codes make sense for this clue?”

• What was your “aha” moment during this challenge? How did this impact finishing the challenge?

I didn’t really have one

• How did this challenge compare to the other two we have completed?

It was kind of harder and had a lot more links to click on

• What was the most challenging aspect of this challenge?

The most challenging aspect was probably figuring out if we needed commas or not

• What two strategies helped you and your team the most when completing the challenge? (Use the strategy sheet for this! If you used a different strategy, list it here as well)

We used click on everything and look closely.

• What did you notice or observe during this challenge?

I noticed that even though there were more locks than last time, we actually finished faster (I think). I also think the clues were more obvious this time.

• What kind of questions did you ask yourself (meta)?

I asked myself what kind of clues a picture could be giving us, I thought about other ways to rearrange the code if it didn’t work.

• How did the time limit impact your ability to solve this breakout session?

I don’t really think it impacted our ability to solve it because we were still able to finish.

• What were your biggest connections when solving this challenge?

My biggest connections were when I found out, for example, what a colored clover was, or what the code was.

• What was the most challenging aspect of this challenge?

The most challenging aspect was I think the color lock because it was really hard and didn’t make sense.

• What two strategies helped you and your team the most when completing the challenge?

Two strategies that helped us were looking closely at all of the pictures and trying different orders of numbers.