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YMCA's Thingamajig Invention Convention: All About Kids

Put 4,000 kids in a room. Add music, materials and imagination. Get fun. Oh, and learning, too.

More than 4,000 kids ages 5-14 from Washington, Maryland and Virginia spent the day Thursday exercising their bodies and their minds as part of the YMCA's  Thingamajig Invention Convention.

More than 50 workshops led by the Y and other organizations and businesses were planned, with an emphasis on inventions using recyclable materials.

A 9-year-old camper told a Y staffer that “it’s the best thing in my life next to Christmas,” according to the organization.

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More than 400 volunteers were participating and more than 20 organizations hosted workshops, including AOPA, Tuskegee Airmen, FIRST, National Science Foundation, SCRAP DC and the US Patent & Trade Office.

AOL, Patch's parent company, participated, and Patch editors, including Katie Griffith, Ryan McDermott, Sean Sedam and Tiffany Arnold, talked to kids about online journalism and Internet safety.

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The event at the Show Place Arena, 14900 Pennsylvania Avenue, in Upper Marlboro ends at 3 p.m. and is open to the public.


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