285. The Invention Process
November 5, 2025 • EPISODE 285
How do you turn a great idea into a success? In this episode of Science LIVE, Dr. Roger Billings takes students through the invention process—from the first spark of inspiration to creating something people truly love. Featuring t-shirt designs by Acellus students, he explores what makes certain ideas stand out and connect. Discover how understanding the invention process can help you bring your own creative ideas to life—and turn them into success stories.
About DrB
Dr. Roger Billings is a visionary innovator whose work has touched the lives of millions of students and transformed the landscape of education. Widely known as “DrB” to the countless kids who benefit from his groundbreaking Acellus learning system, Dr. Billings has dedicated his life to advancing education through technology.
As part of DrB’s lifelong commitment to supporting education, Science LIVE was launched as a way to “give back” by mentoring students in conjunction with the Roger Billings Scholarship Program.
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10# Uncle Sam!
Hydrogen trains sound very environmentally friendly and efficient. I think they are a very good endeavor and worth looking into.
Definitely shirt #8. I love the lemon aesthetic.
Love ❤️ R52 THE BEST
The shirts are very cool. I can’t choose a favorite.
These shirts are so creative, love from Virginia!
If you have an idea for an invention but it doesnt really solve a problem and is just creative, is it still a good idea to invent it?
Hello from Ohio! The shirts are awesome!
So glad we got to see Dr. Edmunds last week!
Shirt #6 was my favorite because I really like R 51
Hi from Massachusetts. Science live is great!
Shirt #10 was my favorite because I want you to invent something was very funny.
Great job all you Acellus students for creating such amazing shirts.
I like shirt number #10 because I thought it was quite funny
I liked shirt #3!
Hi! Shirt #8 is the best!
Hello from Texas, I like shirt #52. They were all extremely creative and clever.
Science live has topics interesting for many age groups, always fun to watch.
Science is so funn!!!!!! And very interesting! I love the shirt 52
wow!! this was amazing! i love the shirts!!
Hi from Washington i love the shirts!!!
this is my idea for a shirt
#10 was AWESOME!
I LOVE 10 and 6 they made me LOL
I loved shirts number 4 and 8 because I love R51.
Awesome shirts!! Number 12 is my favorite!
I didn’t know that Chester Carlson discovered how to make a copier, how cool!
I love Dr b’s jackit
The T-shirts were great!
I always love the history and tech parts of the Science Live.
For me, the number 10 is the best. It is really funny lmao
Hi from Indiana I liked shirt number 8
Hello from NC! Love the shirts!
Shirt #1 was definitely a top pick for me but I really did like all the other designs. This was a great science live keep up the good work.
I from California – I vote for t shirt #3
I like shirt number 7; not only does it have a cute, motivational message, but the details on the plane are are very intricately placed.
What factors led to the development of hydrogen-powered trains, and how do they compare to conventional trains in terms of efficiency and cost?
Are you living the life you always dreamed of? At what age did you know you wanted to become a scientist?
I love the puns/jokes in this! And water is so weird, its crazy on how it works!
I love all the t-shirts! It’s inspiring to see the creativity!
Yall I loved the shirts my favorite was number 6 the r51 did it
Hello from Alabama. LOVE SCIENCE LIVE 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
Dr. Billings did you always know you would become an inventor?
the shirts are so cool 😃🩷!!!!!!!!!!!
#6 100%! r-51 did it!!!!!
The shirts are so creative! I love them all!
Excited to see hydrogen engines become used globally
Hello from Ohio! Why does the light remove the static electricty from the paper? Wouldn’t the light energize the paper instead?
Of course there are students watching science live! I personally love science live!
I look forward to watching Science Live each week! The frozen bottle is so cool.
Love the shirts i am from Florida and the name is elijah
t-shirt number 10’s the best
hi I’m from Hawaii and I like t-shirt, number 6.
Hi from Nevada! I love Science Live
#10 is my favorite shirt, “I want YOU to invent something”
Pretty cool video this week!!!!!!!!!!
I loved seeing all twelve shirts along with their different graphics and designs, each of them were awesome and admirable! But I do think that my favorite shirt was shirt number three “opportunity is knocking”
These shirts are amazing. I really enjoyed shirt #1. Love the car and thoughts of unlocking my potential.
hi I’m from Texas and I love this so much.
I really liked shirt #10, but they were all amazing. This week of science live was great.
Hi from NC! I like watching Science Live.
Hi from Colorado! Love the shirts!
i loooooooooooooooove science live
I liked shirt number 8 because I think r51 goes great with lemons.
I like shirt #10 I want YOU to invent something!
I love the shirt number #3 and R-51 is the most funniest thing ever I love that yall added him into the show
Hi! I really loved the t-shirts!!
I think all the shirts were clever
I vote shirt number 52
The shirts are awesome!
Loved the shirts!
Excited to see the hydrogen trains!
I like shirt #10 and I also like shirt #52!!
I liked hearing from the girl who graduated from Acellus
R51 is my favorite thing in the world.
“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”
This is my favorite Winston Churchill quote.
What is your favorite quote?
I vote 51
science live is easily the best part of my day!
they were all so creative! Great job!
hi! I’m from NY. I love science live.
Excited about the hydrogen train!
I loved R-51’s shirts 51 and 52. Hope they put them into the Acellus Gold Store
I like r51 because I like when he Macks faces it is so funny and I like the deep hole hydrogen because he did the hydrogen voce
I enjoyed the quote from Sir Isaac Newton at the end, and I respect the shameless pun on shirt #3!
Tobias has some really interesting stories about science, number #10 is the best by the way.
I love the train and all the shirts!! another awesome episode!
R-51 was very funny tonight! Loved #2 a lot.
shirt #4 has to be my favorite shirt. R-51 is easily the best way to finish of the science live. I have learned so much from R-51’s inventions!
Shirts were awesome, love Acellus 🙂
the r51 one is the best
Inventors are amazing and so creative. I want to invent something.
R51 is a Joker I love your videos they make me laugh my favorite video is the Billings turbine
All of the shirts are very creative but I agree number 1 was the best!!
Shirt #1 is creative and the best in my opinion!
R 51’s shirt was so funny! I loved this episode so much!
Thank you for that episode of Science live! I thought the Uncle Sam shirt was really funny. Dr. Billings, how do you know if goals are to high or unrealistic?
I liked R-51s second shirt the best!
Dr Billings have you ever thought about running for president?
I think inventing is so cool. I would love to be able to invent something that helps change the world.
Everyone had stunning and fun shirts! But R51 definitely had the most spectacular shirt!
This show is awesome
So hey when there’s going to be the next episode of science live this is my new favorite science show.
I love how funny R-51 is!!
I really liked the #10 Shirt!
I loved shirts 3 and 10 most! I loved the r51 shirt as well.
Hydrogen fuel cell powered trains sound amazing! I can’t believe America is actually using them!
loveeeee the shirts!
Hey! Commenting from Puerto Rico. appreciate the hard work for this Science Live and it’s interesting to hear the topic at hand. keep up the hard work!
Awesome! I love science so much!!
i like the shirt that says r 51 did it.
I think that number eight was the funniest
I would like to wear #10 good job
The R51 shirt was sooo funny!!
The shirts look awesome! People are so creative 😀
I like number 12’s shirt or number 52 shirt the best
I loved all the t-shirts my favorite one was number four, it was very inspiring! And R-51 was so funny this episode. 🙂
Hi, love going into hydrogen and agree it is the smartest element! Cant wait to ride on a hydrogen train one day!
I like shirt 52 the best
The printer 🖨️ is a pretty cool story!
I think the hydrogen train things are a really great idea!
Hello from Arkansas. I loved number ten. ” Go invent something!” so funny.
I really like how he said a problem can lead to a invention!
My favorite t-shirts are 10 and 11!
I didn’t know that printers were so complicated!
I would hate to write so many copies too.
I loved learning about the first photocopier, it was really fascinating! I also loved all the t-shirts, my favorite one was probably the one that said “I want YOU to invent something.”
I love science!
How do hydrogen trains move?
R 51 was great
My favorite shirt was number 5 it was really inspiring
I liked r.51 and 52 the best
I love watching science live, it never fails to teach me new and interesting facts! I really like #9 and #10
I thought it was REALLY COOL when the water bottle hit the table, it froze. I really like these videos!
I vote shirt #4
(and shirt #52)
You have no idea how much I love these science lives and how much that these science lives mean to me like it means so much you have no idea
It was interesting learning about how static electricity imprints the ink into the paper.
What inspired you too become a Scientist?
Off topic, but I was just thinking about it and wondered, do you have a pet?
Did Dr Roger Billings create Acellus?
This was honestly just very fascinating, I absolutely love inventing / creating things in my free time and I’d be so happy to even do it has a job in my future!
I wonder if the hydrogen power engines are more powerful
I really like how you give us a chance to present are ideas. Also my favorite shirt is number five and number ten.
I did not know that water could freeze like that.
those t-shirts look so cool! will they be available to buy with gold credits?
Fun fact! I’ve never been on an airplane before!!
I loved all the t-shirts!!!!!
My favorite was the first one of the car
Loved the all the t-shirt designs !!
I liked the r 51 shirt the best.
The shirts were all great! I liked #2 a lot, It’s very inspiring and represents Dr. Billings and Lady Paget both perfectly! R-15 was soo funny this episode!
I really liked the #10!!
The discovery of the technology that allows the photo copier to work is a very interesting story.
Loved the T-shirts!!
R 51 is the best ending of science live ever.
Hi! From N.C. I love science live!
Wow! This video really inspired me…I really love to invent things myself, (Coming from an artist) So I make lots of arts and crafts. But recently, I’ve been wanting to write this book I’ve had in mind for awhile. But the thing is, I have so many thoughts in mind, it’s so hard to situate them. So therefore, I gave up on it. Thinking I wasn’t gonna be able to pursue it. But after this video, I’ve grown that same passion for it again.
Roger billings, you really inspired me in this video…I love your school program, and the live videos. I hope to see more in the future too!!
It’s amazing how people can come up with an idea or invention and then execute it.
I love the creativity of all of the shirts, and the lesson that was tied along with it. My personal favorite is number four, but they all look amazing!
I think it’s really cool that hydrogen can power multiple things.
Excited about the hydrogen train!
I love doing home school with Acellus
Roses are red
Violets are blue
I loved this science live
And I think you did too.
My favorite shirt is #3 “opportunity is knocking”
watching science live is my favorite part of the day.
I loved watching the science live episode this week. My favorite part of this episode was the technology spotlight with Dr. John. Learning about soft ice and how engineers are finding ways to cause the airplane wings to defrost quickly was extremely interesting. I had no idea that this type of ice is actually up in the atmosphere which is the reason for many issues with planes. So I believe that creating a way that wings can shake is an extremely good idea. Hopefully it doesn’t end up like my water in the freezer. I can’t wait for next week’s episode Mr. B!
The shirts were all great! I liked the first one the most!
R-51 makes me laugh
I love the t-shirts #8 was my favorite
Hydrogen is the smartest element.
My favorite t-shirt is #9. I like that shirt because I like science!
This is so awesome! Science is my favorite
I like #3, very creative and reminds me of the science lives. I like #4 too, pretty funny 😆
I like how detailed Mr. Billings is.
I love that people from across the world got to share their shirts with everyone. They had amazing ideas.
I sincerely enjoyed this episode of science live! As many others, I enjoyed seeing the T-shirt designs. It was very interesting to see the diversity as well as the uniqueness between each T-shirt design, and I would have to say that my favorite T-shirt was number six. It was very silly, yet clever! Brought a smile to my face.
I loved learning about the inventions especially trains and the railroad
Ever since I was very young I have wanted to invent something that could change the world.