Innovation can come from a lot of places. Often, it comes from years of research and development from companies or investors with budgets and facilities, from scientists with ideas to be tested or entrepreneurs with new businesses that challenge the status quo. But sometimes it takes an outside view of ...

Today is the day: Bots High — A Documentary on High School Combat Robots screens today on the net and around the country. Check out their free screening page for more information about screenings, and to see if one is scheduled near you. I’ve received an advanced copy of the DVD ...

Calling all Lee Nelson fans! I’ve been given 2 tickets to give away for his show at 5.30pm this Sunday 9th October at Shepherd’s Bush Empire in London. To be in with a chance of winning and going to see this cheeky chappy, simply leave a comment on this post ...

Robot season is upon us and the competition is starting to heat up. If you happen to find a free weekend I recommend that you look up a local competition and check it out. It is amazing how fired up kids can get about robots. Unfortunately there is no single place ...

Robot season is upon us and the competition is starting to heat up. If you happen to find a free weekend I recommend that you look up a local competition and check it out. It is amazing how fired up kids can get about robots. Unfortunately there is no single place ...

After a hike in the Catskill Mountains last winter, 13-year-old Aidan Dwyer noticed the patterns in the branches of trees. Investigation led him to an important insight about how the shape of the branches can be used by the tree to optimize the amount of light collected for photosynthesis. Some ...

We’d like to offer a big congratulations to the winner of our  GeekDad/Toontastic Summer Cartoon Competition. The votes are in and we have a winner: Bright Beach Day by Elliescience. (You can watch the winning entry above.) As the folks over at Launchpad Toys identified, the highlight of this cartoon is ...

Well, creative young people from across the globe have been creating videos of the Summer Holidays and sharing them with us in our Summer Cartoon Competition. The short-listing has taken place and now the voting can begin. There are ten terrific adventures for you to watch and vote for over at ...

Image via: Toontastic As we announced last week, GeekDad is thrilled to be working with Launchpad Toys to sponsor Toontastic’s Travel Tales ‘Tooning Contest for kids to create their own cartoons about their family’s summer travels using Toontastic for the iPad. Please see last week’s article for more information on how ...

Dads can often get a little overlooked in the present department. Mother’s Day is seen as a more official event than Father’s Day. With this in mind I’m happy to write a quick post about a competition for dads to win an Xbox Kinect bundle. You can enter via Facebook, Twitter ...