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May 8th, 2012

The brand spanking new Cracking Ideas competition has just launched!

Hot on the heels of the recent Wallace & Gromit innovation for sport competition comes the Cracking Ideas brand new challenge for 2012 – 2013 based around one of the creative duo’s favourite subjects … SPACE.

We've Launched!

We've Launched!

This year the Intellectual Property Office  has teamed up with Liverpool’s supersonic visitor attraction Spaceport to bring a bespoke schools workshop all about the space age science and intellectual property. Children and educators have the opportunity to find out more about how patents, trade marks, copyright and design have a part to play in everyday life and how this ties in with 21st Century space-age technology. You’ll also have the opportunity to express your  creativity and develop your innovative ideas by entering the new competition through completing your very own Cracking Ideas Moon Bug.

Entry to the competition, however, is not dependant on a visit to Spaceport … In fact we want as many 4 – 16 year olds as possible throughout England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales to participate. To facilitate this and encourage lots of innovative creating and making we have developed a very special Cracking Ideas Moon Bug pack which can be downloaded here or is available as a hard copy from Cracking Ideas Competition, Intellectual Property Office, FREEPOST CF4185, Newport, NP20 1ZZ and ideas@crackingideas.com

Whether you’re into rocket launching science, lunar landscape art, deep space design or galactic gizmo technology this year’s Cracking Ideas space competition is right up your street! We need those supersonic, space age Cracking Ideas rocketing their way to us. So go on get cracking!

Ready, steady … Blast off!

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There are 4 comments

  • hi,
    i don’t know whether it’s my computer or the link but when i click on ‘Cracking ideas Moon bug pack’ it comes up with ‘the selected document can not be opened’. do you know why? thanks

    Posted by gromitsbuddyinginventor

    June 5, 2012 at 4:11 pm

  • Hmmmmm, that’s strange. We’ll look into that. Thanks for letting us know.

    Posted by admin

    June 7, 2012 at 2:52 pm

  • Hi,
    I would just like to say that it is rather unfair that only people from Scotland, England, Northern Ireland, Wales can be chosen as finalists considering that I live in America and one of my friends and I had already been working on a way to get into space (not that we are going to try it on ourselves) and I was thinking of possibly entering the competition until I saw that only people from certain places could enter.

    Posted by Fishes5679

    October 27, 2012 at 6:39 pm

  • Hi Fishes5679.
    Thanks for your comment. Please do send your ideas into us. You can upload them here on the competition page or send them into Cracking Ideas, Intellectual Property Office, Cardiff Road, FREEPOST CF4185, Newport, NP20 1ZZ
    We would be thrilled to see your cracking ideas for space … we sometimes send out special prizes to cracking innovators from overseas! Go on … get cracking!

    Posted by admin

    January 23, 2013 at 3:29 pm

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