What: Pinay Toy Inventor
Where: London, United Kingdom
When: December 18, 2011
Eureka is a term that means " I have found it!", and certainly we have found our UFO sighting for today. Let me introduce to you our UFO sighting in today's feature, Melinda Holohan.
Melinda Holohan lost her job not so long ago and she became a stay-at-home mom looking for her two children. One Eureka moment came to her life last year after dealing with a tough question from her then 3 year old son. In the process of coming up with an answer to her son’s question, she invented a toy by accident. She calls it circa — the circular calendar.
His son wanted to know when he could go swimming again. It was Thursday evening that day and his son goes swimming on a Tuesday. Melinda find it quite difficult to explain to him that the week does continue and it does start again. While she was laying in bed she thinks to herself there must be a way of teaching kids the circular nature of calendar. She couldn’t fall asleep and she decided to just get out of bed. She then designed the circular calendar that evening using Power Point.
Holohan wanted to produce a quality toy that is tactile so she used wood.
Award-winning design
Almost two years after inventing and developing circa, an innovative toy calendar, it has reaped the following awards and recognition in the UK:
To Melinda Holohan we salute you.
Where: London, United Kingdom
When: December 18, 2011
Eureka is a term that means " I have found it!", and certainly we have found our UFO sighting for today. Let me introduce to you our UFO sighting in today's feature, Melinda Holohan.
Melinda Holohan lost her job not so long ago and she became a stay-at-home mom looking for her two children. One Eureka moment came to her life last year after dealing with a tough question from her then 3 year old son. In the process of coming up with an answer to her son’s question, she invented a toy by accident. She calls it circa — the circular calendar.
His son wanted to know when he could go swimming again. It was Thursday evening that day and his son goes swimming on a Tuesday. Melinda find it quite difficult to explain to him that the week does continue and it does start again. While she was laying in bed she thinks to herself there must be a way of teaching kids the circular nature of calendar. She couldn’t fall asleep and she decided to just get out of bed. She then designed the circular calendar that evening using Power Point.
Holohan wanted to produce a quality toy that is tactile so she used wood.
Award-winning design
Almost two years after inventing and developing circa, an innovative toy calendar, it has reaped the following awards and recognition in the UK:
- Top Drawer September 2011: Best New Children's Product
- Rainbow Toy Awards 2011: Highly Commended – Wooden Toy Category
- British Female Inventors and Innovators Network (BFIIN) Awards: Winner – Inventors Award, Semi-Finals 2011.
- Circa was also recently selected as one of the Top 25 gifts of the Ideal Home Show at Christmas held at Earl’s Court in London.
To Melinda Holohan we salute you.
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