Junior Inventor Awards 2011 Launched
The Patents Office today [Tuesday] launched the Junior Inventor Awards
2011. The Awards, which is now in its 4th year, seeks to encourage primary
school children to demonstrate their creativity and inventiveness, and
hopefully sow the seeds of interest in the sciences and engineering at an
early age.
Entries can include any idea for an invention that solves an everyday
problem for example the GPS system in cars or the dishwasher - ideas that
makes life better or easier.
The competition was originally launched by the Patents Office to mark its
contribution to World Intellectual Property Day, which falls on the 26th
April every year.
This year’s competition is divided into two class categories with one
overall winner who will be presented with the Junior Inventor Award 2011.
The categories are: -
o First Class to Third Class
o Fourth Class to Sixth Class
Prizes will be awarded in each category and the first placed winners in
each category will also receive a prize for their schools.
Launching the competition, Eamonn Laird, Controller of Patents, Designs and
Trademarks, said: ‘The Junior Inventor Awards has proved very popular with
Primary School teachers and pupils and has gone from strength to strength
since its inception. The level of creativity and inventiveness of the
children never ceases to amaze me and that is certainly encouraging for the
future of innovation in Ireland. I would urge all Primary School teachers
to enter their pupils in this exciting and challenging competition.’
The closing date for entries is Friday 15th April 2011 at 5.00pm and the
address to send entries is: Junior Inventor 2011, Patents Office,
Government Buildings, Hebron Road, Kilkenny. The winners will be announced
at a presentation ceremony in Kilkenny on Monday 16th May 2011.
All Primary Schools should receive notification of the competition in the
post and details are also available on the Patents Office website at
http://www.patentsoffice.ie./
ENDS
For further information please contact:
The Information Centre, Patents Office, 056 7720111, Lo Call 1890 220223 or
patlib@patentsoffice.ie
Press Office, Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation, 01 – 631 2200
or press.office@deti.ie
Further information on World Intellectual Property Day can be accessed at
www.wipo.int
About the Patents Office
The central mission of the Patents Office is:
To provide an efficient and effective system of industrial property
protection that will encourage technological progress and promote
enterprise through the implementation by the Office of the relevant
legislation.
This will be achieved through the protection of industrial property rights
in the fields of patents, trade marks and designs, and the dissemination of
relevant information in conjunction with each of these activities.
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Press Office
Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation
Kildare Street, Dublin 2
Ph: 631 2200 Fax: 6312828
www.deti.ie