New Season starts Sunday 5 pm 14th Feb 2010

The new series won’t disappoint with ten more risk taking, creative and inspiring machines.  

They included a jet powered kayak that saw 13-year-old Matt Drummond from tiny Takapau in the Hawkes Bay reach land speeds of up to fifty kilometres an hour. 

Another fast invention was Maddison van Sitter’s high powered fishing rod that used gunpowder and rocket power to send his bait hundreds of metres into the sea.

The Let’s Get Inventin’ team even produced a mechanical horse that could also neigh and pooh just like a real horse. 

Let’s Get Inventin’ has a brand new Build Buddy this series – the multi talented Clinton Randell. Clinton describes Let’s Get Inventin’ as the one of the most challenging jobs he’s ever done and the most fun. He’s joined by Robotics engineer Chris Chitty back as the knowledgeable yet slightly off the wall character of Dr Robotech.

There’s a road that plays Tiki Taane’s number one hit Always on My Mind when you drive on it and a suction powered hair tier upper that puts your hair in a pony tail without using your hands thanks to Rachel Barker from New Plymouth. Luckily the Breakers Basketball cheerleaders’ hair extensions survived that Goober Challenge.

At just eight years old, the youngest competitor Madalena Refiti from Auckland realized her dream of flying with the aid of a flying hat.  

This year, with the help of New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, Let’s Get Inventin’ is in schools around the country teaching kids how to use their wild imaginations to think up new invention ideas.

Three of this season’s episodes begin with a school invention workshop where one lucky inventor was chosen to have their idea realized in that episode. They   also competed in the final for the $10,000 Patent Prize Package.

From the ten inventions made in the series, AJ Park Patent attorneys identified unique ideas that are potentially patentable. From these, one clever young inventor won the $10,000 Patent Prize package from AJ Park and the Icehouse Business Incubator.

The Fonterra Milk Bottle Challenge continues and you can enter here to be in to win one of ten iPod Touch prizes we have to give away. Be watching episode 10 to find out who gets their milk bottle invention made on the show.

Let’s Get Inventin’ screens on TV2 at 5 pm starting Sunday February 14 2010 and repeated every Saturday at 9 am on TV2.