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Ruth Amos

Ruth Amos

An award-winning inventor, engineer, author and one half of the YouTube channel 'Kids Invent Stuff'

Ruth is passionate about promoting the visibility of women in engineering. Having started as one of two girls in her resistant materials class at school, she went on to invent the StairSteady as part of her GCSE exams and became a young engineer for Britain – aged just 16! She patented the product and instead of going to university, started a company from her parents’ dining table – the StairSteady is now sold across the UK and Europe and licensed internationally.

Determined to make a difference in their sector, Ruth and her friend Shawn Brown co-founded Kids Invent Stuff to get more young people involved in – and excited by – engineering and science. Each month, they set a new invention challenge on the channel and 4-11 years olds are invited to send in their ideas as pictures and videos. Ruth and Shawn bring these weird, whacky, and wonderful ideas to life, documenting the creative process as well as the end result.

Ruth is the winner of many accolades including the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Rooke Award for the public promotion of engineering in 2023, an IET Honorary Fellowship in 2022, and the Institute of Mechanical Engineers Alastair Graham-Bryce Award in 2021, to mention a few!

Ruth’s first book The Inventor’s Workshop: How People and Machines Transformed Each Other was published in April, 2024 by Magic Cat. This wonderful book is about ten inventions that changed the world, exploring how they came about and the people who created them.

Testimonials from Teachers

"Ruth was fantastic and inspiring. What a great celebration of women and something truly for my daughters to aspire to. We brought our daughter along and she was completely compelled by Ruth and I know which YouTube channel they will be watching over the summer."

– Parent, Derwent Lodge

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South Yorkshire

Topics

  • Technology
  • Science
  • Women

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