Looks at what it is like to visit a Maker Faire and the types of innovative new projects seen there, with information on how to volunteer at or plan a Maker Faire event.
"This title teaches readers how to stop dreaming about becoming an inventor--and take steps to make their dreams come true! Helpful tips for finding inspiration, keeping an ideas journal and always thinking about how to improve things will help your reader inventing in no time! An activity at the end of the book encourages readers to invent their own board game and test it out."--.
Daring dachshund Noodles narrates as evil Mesmers bent on world domination arrive at the Amazing Automated Inn, where eleven-year-old inventor Wally Kennewickett, aided by Noodles and the inn's automatons, tries to foil their plans.
Describes important inventions throughout history and their impact on people's lives, and presents instructions for nineteen related projects, as well as over two hundred full-color photos and illustrations.
"Carter Lewis is having trouble making it through "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," so his cousin Isabelle suggests that he use his uncle's virtual reality machine to enter into the book as a character--and meet the Headless Horseman up-close and personal"--Provided by publisher.
Describes some of the many inventions created throughout history, by era, and the lasting effect those discoveries have made in the lives of people to this day.
Ruby is determined to win the gold with her fifth-grade science fair project, a Rube Goldberg machine to help her grandfather, but the real prize turns out to be something completely unexpected.
