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Home My WebLink AboutHuron Expositor, 2003-11-12, Page 11LOWER MONTHLY PAYMENTS 1st & 2nd Mortgages $25,000. - $190.B0✓mth $50,000. - $381.61/mth $100,000. - $763.21/mth Call 1-866-667-5643 Far -Mor Mortgage Funding Mortgages Bought, Sold St. Anne's Parent/Guardian Night Thursday, Nov. 13 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. Eagles Prime Time is presented by Student Cabinet and the School Advisory Council. News THE HURON EXPOSITOR, NOVEMBER 12, 2003-11 Author, engineer visits with St. James students By Sara Campbell Expositor Staff Whether it's making a mini spy camera or a homemade doorbell, Amy Pinchuk is helping to tum young children into engineers. The author, engineer and mother visited with St. James School's Gcade 5 class at the Seaforth Public Library on Nov. 7, as part of Canadian Children's Author Week through the Canadian Art Council. "I've always been involved with science, ever since I was a kid, and now as a engineer I want to teach everyone else what I know," said Pinchuk, of Montreal. Pinchuk is the author of Make Cool Gadgets for Your Room, Make Amazing Toy and Game Gadgets and The Best Book of Bikes, a children's history book of the bicycle. Pinchuk has a PhD in engineering, runs her own consulting firm and is involved with the European Space Agency, Canadian Navy and the Natural Sciences Research Council. She is also a professor of engineering at McGill University and has been nominated for a major 2003 engineering award for initiating activities for children at engineering conferences. She was recognized in 2001 for her book Make Cool Gadgets for Your Room, shortlisted for the Canadian Science Writers' Association's Science in Society Book Award. She has lead children's workshops in international engineering ,conferences. These workshops are designed to motivate, inspire and teach young engineers, age 5 and up or Grade 4 to 12. "This age group (Grade 5 students) are most interested in science and gadgets. They are eager to learn and have big imaginations for ideas of their own gadgets," she said. Pinchuk said three years ago she was approached by a publisher of Popular Mechanics for Kids with the idea of making a book. "As an engineer, I have to put my ideas and steps down in writing. But then I had to make them easier for children to understand and find gadgets that would apply to Popular Mechanics," she said. She showed the students a mini, workable spy camera she made from a pie plate cardboard, lots of tape and a roll of 35 mm cartridge film. Pinchuk said she wrote Make Cool Gadgets for Your Room and Make Amazing Toy and Game Gadgets at the same time. Sara Campbell photo Amy Pinchuk (left), of Montreal, an author, engineer and mother, visited with St. James School's Grade 5 class at the Seaforth Public library on Nov. 7. (Above) Pinchuk shows students Natalie Bieber and Rachel Askett how to make a homemade doorbell. She said it took her a year to create the ideas for the books and used her four children to test and rate the gadgets she made. She added that it took another year to write the books including editing and illustrating. "When I was in Grade 5, the last thing I would have thought of being was a writer because I wasn't good at English or spelling," she said. "I had to be able to communicate what I enjoyed doing and I worked with editors to make that possible." Pinchuk said her books are filled with illustrations, facts easy -to -follow steps as well as pictures that interest her, such as ones of a lightning storm. "Pictures that make me say wow, I want others to see too. So I put them in my books and often things I make for my books go into my engineering," she said. The Grade 5 class had the opportunity to make a doorbell by using elastic bands, clothespins, metal paper clips, wire, tape, a mini buzzer and a mini light bulb. 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