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Over the past few weeks, JOY LAB has been popping up in all kinds of places - libraries, family hubs, primary and secondary schools, community spaces, museums, and within groups like Girl Guides and Brownies.

People of all ages across Sunderland and South Tyneside are being invited to take part in Joy Lab - a major new creativity project asking one simple question: What can you invent to bring a moment of happiness to someone’s day?

Students at Epinay Business and Enterprise School in South Shields have been turning their imaginations towards the planet, creating inventive solutions to environmental challenges as part of the Climate Action Heroes challenge from Little Inventors.

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.

In March we welcomed our fourth OCAD student for their university placement!

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.

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.

An imaginative ocean innovation by an eleven-year-old from South Shields is set to become a real-world prototype, with Osbit committing to bring the invention to life following Little Inventors’ Making Waves: Inventing for a Better Ocean challenge.