Campus Technology: Pennsylvania State University is opening a new exploration lab designed to foster student creativity and inventiveness.
The "Invention Studio" will be located in the Penn State Knowledge Commons on the University Park campus and open to all of the university's students, faculty and staff members. The university is creating the studio in partnership with littleBits, a company that makes simple electronic building blocks that will be available in the studio for people to use.
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This is an incredible opportunity for the students at Penn State and one that I am extremely jealous of. While working in a goal-orientated setting is fine and productive, it limits us in what we can achieve. Opening this up to students and faculty gives them a place to play with the subjects that they're interested in. The Invention Studio will allow the people at Penn State to explore their own interests while not worrying about failure or missing deadlines, aspects of invention that prohibit creative thinking. I'm split on the idea of assigning invention as homework. On one hand, it gives students a drive and a goal to create something, but if they're too strict on deadlines, it could prove counterproductive. I'm interested to see how that is facilitated in the future. More importantly, though, I'm glad that students are getting the hands-on opportunity to solve real-world problems. Even if we're/they're not studying that particular subject, we all have something to bring to the table and the fact that Penn State is utilizing that is amazing.
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