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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Watching from Florida. I really like these science videos.
When do you think people will be living in Mars?
I am watching from Illinois!! Science is interesting and one of my favorite subjects!
I really love Science Live. I pop popcorn and watch each week. Thank you for making it intrasting each week.
I thought that it was cool that he was on the radio in the past.
#3 shirt is my favorite!!
Thanks for the inspirational video!
I love roger billings!
Watching from Illinois. These are always great to watch!!
I watched this episode on Monday and submitted my thing for the shirts. I really liked some of them! But I wanted to Thank Roger Billings for saying that inventing things doesn’t have to be so complicated and difficult. When you here about people creating stuff it sounds so intense but it doesn’t have to be and that really opened my eyes to thinking about what I am capable of.
I LOVE SCIENCE LIVE!!!
#8 and #10 were my favorites. But all the designs are great!
I thought it was so interesting learning about how the photocopier was invented.
Ready for science live. Love R51
I love being able to do my school from home in my jammies.
I am working on cleaning and organizing my room so I can be more creative.
I love the shirts. Can’t wait for one.
It would be so cool to invent something new! I also enjoyed the story about Mr. Billings’ test to see if anyone was listening to the broadcast.
Science lives are the highlight of my Wednesdays!
* Hydrogen trains are coming to America – Northern Railway and San Bernardino trains in California are going to be powered with by hydrogen.
* Acellus helps students reach their personal career goals :).
* Let’s remember that problems can be opportunities for world-changing inventions.
* Inventions can start with basic discoveries and ideas. We can get inspired by solving problems.
* We can build an experiment in our mind where art and science come together and invent something that makes our lives better.
* Thank you Mr. Billings for all your inventions and our great school!
I look forward to science live each week!
My favorite was number 4
Really loved the opportunity one, always been fascinated by rovers
It’s amazing that there are now hydrogen powered trains! Hopefully there will be more in the future.
The way dr billings explained the invention process made it easy to understand.
I love to hear that so many students are having success with Acellus.
This is my shirt.
Watching Science Live from Ohio!
R-51 has a large personality.
Watching From Mexico, i love watching science.
I always love watching Science Live!
I know it is a little late but here is my design it might not be the best that you have seen but here it is.
This is so cool! I think it’s an amazing design! I love your use of the Acellus colors, and how the yellow used throughout the drawing matches the gold color. My favorite parts of your design are the computer drawing in the top left, the stack of gold, and that heart you added within the light bulb on the top right. I feel like I always draw computers the same way, and the way you did it is totally new. The stack of gold is so detailed, it’s like you can feel its value, and that heart in the light bulb is such a profound touch, it truly shows how teachers who love what they teach create a lifelong love of learning in a student.
It’s clear you put a lot of thought, care, and creativity into this design!
I think it’s amazing that hydrogen trains are coming to America.
Science live is the best!!!
Hello from florida! i really love the hydrogen car shirt, would totally buy it with my gold !!
The process in figuring out how to deal with the ice on plane wings was so interesting!
Man i LOVE Science Live.
Hey y’all, I am from Dallas Texas and I love these videos.
Dr. John is always going to inspire me! The way he explains of tech, robotic, and A.I features will always be fascinating, interesting, mine blowing! Thank you, Mr. Billings for sharing all these fantastic features and science inventions! Keep inspiring everybody of this awesome Academy!
All of the shirts are wonderful, but I especially prefer #7!
I never knew Dr. Billings was a radio announcer, it was cool to learn about how radio waves move during times of the day
The 5th shirt is my personal favorite.
I vote for Tshirt # 10 but all are good.
I think this is very interesting to show the processes and challenges of creating an invention.Very cool video!
I liked shirt 4#
My favorite part each week is when Tobias teaches us about inventions and inventors or the history behind something. He is great at explaining things in detail, making it interesting and not boring at all. I look forward to what he will teach us next week!
My favorite shirt is #10
I love that every time I watch science live, I learn something entirely new! I never knew about the intricacies of the invention of the photo copier!
I love Science Live!
How long does the invention process take?
I loved all the different t-shirts everyone made.
sending some more love from chicago, hope to see more from those brilliant minds
I voted for 10
I think a clever message on a shirt would sell more shirts than something related to Acellus Academy that makes students feel passionate.
How did the bottle freeze when John hit the table
Do you think we will get more opportunities to design Acellus merch in the future?
Awesome episode! personally #10 has got to be my favorite!
I love the shirts but my favorite 10 🙂
The 3rd shirt was my favorite they were all good and unique in their own ways congrats to everyone.
I like number 1 the best
The fifth shirt was my favorite! hope to design one myself one day!
If we do invent something what should our next step be should we get a patent so other people cant take it as there own, focus on improving it or should we do both?
Today’s Science Live was fun, I prefer #1 out of all of them!
Tobias always the highlight of Science love for me. Dr. John’s bit was very very cool, pun intended, I have seen this water bottle trick, and I wish I could try it! 😃
Love how much I’ve learned here.
I like shirt #6!
i love listening to Tobias he is very funy
I like shirt #4, it’s funny!
I love science live and I’m watching from Louisiana
I loved this week’s live, and my favorite T-shirt was #8.
All those shirt designs are amazing! I really think number 9 stands out.
Thank you Dr. Billings, miss Pajet Monet and the whole acellus team for another great science live! Can’t wait till next week.
Watching from Nevada I loveeeee these vidssss!
Its very interesting learning about planes! Also shirt #6 was my favorite.
R51 is my favorite
Great shirts created by some creative minds.
Interesting info on wings of planes. I had no idea.
Science live is awesome!
I agree with you!
Watching from Mississippi. I really enjoy these videos
I love science live.
number 10 was my favorite
WATCHING FROM MICHIGAN
I love r 51!!! I really enjoy watching these videos, there is always something to learn
I think the vibrating a wing of a plane idea is a good idea.
I really like airplanes also. It was really interesting to learn how airplanes keep ice off the wings. Thanks a ton.
The invention process is quite interesting, how things can get invented and made is pretty amazing. I mean you’re making a new never before seen thing or an improvement of something that once existed but you’re now making it better.
Science really does have the answer for everything! Sometimes it takes a while but eventually you’ll get there haha!
I love seeing all the shirts everyone came up with!
Good episode today! I thought Chester Carlson’s invention of the photocopier was really interesting.
I liked all of the t shirts but I think #4 was the best
Watching from Nevada!!
I think that t-shirt number 10 was by far the best.
I love r 51!
R 51 is funny!!
#3 was my favorite shirt
We like shirt #7!
I’ve never understood how radio stations knew how to space themselves far apart enough not to interfere with each other. I never knew they had to turn their frequencies down.
Riding a hydrogen train would be cool! Number 10 is my favorite.
I thought it was very interesting to learn where the xerox company got it’s name and beginning.
I love SCIENCE LIVE! 😀
Great video for today!
My favorite T-shirt was number #4
I did not know you used to be a radio announcer, that’s really cool!
my favorite shirt was 10 too
favorite t-shirt was #10
these are so much fun to watch!!
The explanation on the wing resonant frequency was really cool!
If you take an invention and make it better is that still inventing because you are improving it?
I loved shirt 10!
I love this show!
I would wear #11, I really like that one a lot
All the shirts that were shown are wonderful and amazing in there own unique ways but my personal favorites are: shirt 1, shirt 4, shirt 5, shirt 6, shirt 9, shirt 10, and shirt 12. My two favorites out of all of those are shirt 1 which I love and think is really well designed and shirt 10 history is my favorite subject personally so that shirt just makes my smile. All of the designs I can tell had a lot of effort put into to them so congrats to my fellow students for their designs.
Shirts 7 and 8 were my favorite
NUMBER 51!!!!!
I liked shirts #1 and #3. It’s amazing how devices are being powered by hydrogen!
That’s cool I didn’t know that we can use the coins to get a t-shirt.
I liked the part when R 51 made the shirt it was funny. lol
I love these science lives!
I love this video
Loved the video! One question though, to achieve the speed of light, will hydrogen energy be the key? Since we need quite a lot of energy to achieve such high speeds, Thank you
I liked all of them, I couldn’t choose between 8 or 10
I love shirt 4, especially the line “don’t invent the sun, be the sun.”
my vote would definitely be #10
I gotta go with #10, 100%
shirt 7 is so cool!!!
The definition DrBillings said about inventors when people use their talents and gifts to help the world become better really inspires me and must’ve inspired other students as well and help future inventors become successful in life.
why do the best ideas come when you collaberate with others.
I love learning about inventions and making the world better with discoveries
Great science live again! Thank you Acellus! I will say that I would like a class that is focused more on like nursing and jobs in the heath care field. Just as my suggestion . I feel like that’s something I’d be interested in having for a class.
Thank you Dr. Roger billings! good episode.
nice! I love it!😻
I would wear number 10 all day long for a week
I vote for shirt #10. I like that one the best.
How long did it take you to make the hydrogen car????????
T-shirt number 6 was amazing by the way!
#10!!
Shirt #10 was for sure my favorite
I’ve been on steam powered trains and diesel powered trains. I can’t wait to ride on a hydrogen train.
Interesting to hear you would buy almost any fishing shirt! We love fishing too
Number 4 had the best shirt!
Planes using resonant frequency to break the ice on the wings was so amazing to learn about!
i love the ice trick!!! Also love shirt 6!
I LOVE THE SHIRTS! ESPECIALLY #8! AND #10!
hydrogen can do a lot!
I really enjoyed this episode.
I did not know that radio waves travel further at night
When life gives you lemons, make fireflies XD I voted for #8
go science live!
Yay, y’all ready for tonight?
That’s an interesting start to how photo copies were made!
Thank you so much for this episode of Science Live! It was so good to learn all of the amazing things! Thank you.
Number 5 is cool.
Shirt #7 is the way to go.
Why do radio waves travel shorter distances in the day
My favorite shirt is 6 because it is funny like r51.
Such an amazing job on all the science T-shirts. I genuinely love them all. Thank you for another amazing science live episode.
Thank you so much for this weeks video! It was very inspiring! I vote shirt 52 all the way!
My all time favorite is shirt #10.
I like t shirt design number 10 with uncle Sam.
I always wondered how copying works. The process is pretty intriguing. 😀
I think shirt #10 is the best!
A hydrogen train would be pretty cool to try.
Number 10!!!
This episode was great! The shirts were too, especially numbers 51 and 52…
The invention process is so cool!!!!!!!!
I love #10
How would the speed of a hydrogen powered train compare to the speed of other trains?
Hydrogen trains sound so cool! I want to ride one!
The story told by Dr.Billings about his time as a radio host was funny.
Hi from Ontario 🇨🇦
#9 IS THE BEST SHIRT THAT WAS SHOWN
I loved this episode so much!!!
All those shirts were SOO cool!! But I liked #6, #9 and #10 the best!
My favorite was #2 and #3
love area 51!!
Shirt #3 is my favorite one!
It is easier to study when my room is clean. I like #4
I like T-shirt #6! It is the best in my opinion.