A big thank you to our two guest speakers in the last few weeks.  Mr. Gonzales (Ethan's dad) came in and talked to us about being an industrial designer and the process involved with creating products.  He also started the kids thinking about what the next generation of the iphone will include.  That started some very interesting thoughts and ideas flowing.  Our other speaker was Mr. Dodt (my dad), he came in to talk to us about patents.  He shared the steps involved in getting a patent by showing us one of his patents from design to offical awarding of a patent.  We then looked up on the US patent office's website to see if someone with our same last names had any issued patents.  This inspired some of our kiddos who didn't have any issued patents under their sur names to start thinking about what they could invent to get a patent.

The kids asked great questions and we truly enjoyed both of our visitors.  Thank you for spending part of your day with us!!