invention

Hispanic Kids Can Help Save The Environment with Design Squad!

by Special to Casa Latina on August 3, 2010

Calling all creative kids and young inventors! Leading up to National Inventors Month this August, PBS KIDS GO!’s Emmy and Peabody Award-winning series Design Squad is challenging kids aged 5-19 to spend their summer vacation recycling, reusing, and re-engineering everyday materials to create the next great green invention. With the nationwide Trash to Treasure competition, [...]

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Own Your Own Dream

by Special to Casa Latina on June 15, 2009

in La Buena Vida

An upside of a down economy is that it inspires entrepreneurial creativity. Many well-known companies, such as Microsoft and The Walt Disney Company, were founded during economic recessions. “It’s the old adage that necessity is the mother of invention,” says Amy Cosper, editor-in-chief of Entrepreneur magazine. “Oftentimes, a layoff or other economic challenges are the [...]

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