Climate Action Heroes: It's your world!
Calling Climate Action Heroes! We need your help. Put on your superhero capes because from November 2025 we're launching our latest invention challenge!
SDR200 Next Stop: The Future!
Inventors of the past have come up with some hilarious and down right bonkers ideas for things that use tracks, from zoos to hand-powered bikes and everything in between!
Now it’s your turn to come up with something totally off the rails!
Little Inventors Open Challenge!
What is the Open Challenge you ask? Well, it's what it says on the tin, it's wide open for you to let your creativity flow and invent whatever you want!
Mini Challenges - time to be creative!
There's problems aplenty, serious or funny, that you can use your incredible imagination to solve!
It's time to get creative and take up a Mini Challenge!
Happy Land
FEATURE INVENTION
By Priscilla, Candice, Antheia & Nancy
Age 10 - 13, From Markham, Canada
We created a family fun play place. You can spend quality time with your friends and family. You can go on rides and have fun all day. To power our theme park, we have solar panels for solar energy and wind turbines for wind energy.
Run your own Little Inventors activities!
Are you a teacher wanting something fun to inspire your students or a parent looking for a creative activity for a rainy day? Sift through our free curriculum-linked resource packs and challenges and bring on the creativity!
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OCAD University Placement with Little Inventors 2026
In March we welcomed our fourth OCAD student for their university placement!
Three young inventors visit Orbital FX as their Making Waves ideas move closer to reality
Three young inventors from South Tyneside have taken an exciting step towards seeing their ideas brought to life, after visiting Orbital FX on 24 February as part of Little Inventors’ Making Waves: Inventing for a Better Ocean challenge.
Young Inventor Oliver Visits Osbit to Begin Bringing “Magni-Sub” to Life
Excitement is building for one of the winning ideas from Little Inventors’ Making Waves: Inventing for a Better Ocean challenge, as Oliver, aged 11, from Monkton Primary School in South Shields, recently visited Osbit’s base at the Port of Tyne to begin the journey of turning his invention into reality.
Ford Aerospace Sponsors Young Inventor’s Ocean-Inspired Idea, Bringing “Puffy Coat” to Life
A thoughtful and imaginative invention by a seven-year-old from South Shields is set to become a real-world prototype thanks to the support of Ford Aerospace, a South Tyneside–based engineering company sponsoring one of the winning ideas from Little Inventors’ Making Waves: Inventing for a Better Ocean challenge.
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