{"673883":{"#nid":"673883","#data":{"type":"news","title":"The K-12 InVenture Prize Competition Celebrates a Decade of Discovery in Special Ceremony","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EApproximately 250 K-12 student inventors from 40 schools across the state \u2014 and for the first time, from select schools in Alabama \u2014 arrived on the Georgia Tech campus March 13 for the 2024 K-12 Inventure Prize State Finals 10th anniversary celebration.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn this year\u2019s competition,108 student teams all advanced from the online qualifier and regional qualifying events of the STEM invention\/entrepreneurship program. The students were joined by family, friends, teachers, as well as Georgia Tech students, staff and faculty and community partners, many of whom worked as volunteer judges or helped with registration or other event duties. More than 30 student inventors were honored at the ceremony with awards. Thirty-two winners, singled out by contest judges, will advance to the next round of the competition, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/inhub.thehenryford.org\/icw\/competitions\/us-nationals-landing\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EInvention Convention U.S. Nationals\u003C\/a\u003E at The Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan June 5-7.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe K-12 InVenture Prize, based in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ceismc.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ECenter for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics and Computing (CEISMC)\u003C\/a\u003E, challenges kindergarten through high school students to identify real-world problems and design novel solutions through analysis, creativity, and the engineering design process.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe worked hard to make sure that this year\u2019s State Finals event was very special because we were celebrating the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/k12inventure.gatech.edu\/history\u0022\u003E10th anniversary\u003C\/a\u003E of our program,\u201d said Danyelle Larkin, who was named as the new director of the K-12 InVenture Prize program at the ceremony. \u201cThere were so many amazing highlights and so much joy and positivity. It was truly touching.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe really saw how this work has continued to develop and mature over the years,\u201d she explained. \u201cOur panel discussion on patents included a student inventor\/entrepreneur who is now enrolled as a college student at Tech as well as two high school student inventors who are successfully building a business around a school safety invention which they refined in our competition.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe were also so happy to be able to shine the spotlight on the truly incredible teachers who have worked as our partners over this last \u2018Decade of Discovery.\u2019 Our teachers make this program possible, so we created a new award to bring attention to their essential contributions,\u201d Larkin added. \u201cWe are also seeing some of our students year after year, refining and redesigning, continuing to make improvements to their inventions, working hard to push things forward. And, really, that\u2019s what this is all about.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAt the ceremony, each first-place team received a patent search or patent filing offered by longtime supporters, the Georgia Intellectual Property Alliance (GIPA). Cameron Schriner, an engineer with local software company IronCAD, also presented at the event.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAward-winning student projects included:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EA prototyped water testing machine that provides real-time, accurate data on water safety conditions;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EA battery constructed in part from sustainable carbon derived from tea leaves;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EA game that encourages recycling;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EAn apron that puts out\u0026nbsp;small house fires;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EA collar that helps keep dogs cool in sweltering summer weather;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EA drain storage device that removes microplastics from water;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EA three-string guitar-like instrument that simplifies playing with an automated chord system;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EA grocery-shopping app for sight-impaired people;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EA device that uses molecularly imprinted polymers to detect allergens in food; and\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EAn A.I.-powered research tool that transforms multiple web searches into organized, shareable notes.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to the awards ceremony, students participated in hands-on STEM activities and visited the Paper and Clay craft studio for a wide variety of fun, creative projects. The day of events concluded with the annual InVenture Prize at Georgia Tech competition at the Ferst Center for the Arts that aired live on Georgia Public Broadcasting and online. Nicknamed \u0022American Idol for Nerds,\u0022 the Emmy Award-winning InVenture Prize at Georgia Tech is an interdisciplinary innovation competition open to all Tech undergraduate students.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo see a full list of winners and their projects, please visit \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/k12inventure.gatech.edu\/competition2024\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/k12inventure.gatech.edu\/competition2024\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor more information on the K-12 InVenture Prize curriculum and competition, please visit \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/k12inventure.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/k12inventure.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E or \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.k12inventure.org\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.k12inventure.org\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u2014Randy Trammell, CEISMC Communications\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EApproximately 250 K-12 student inventors from 40 schools across the state \u2014 and for the first time, from select schools in Alabama \u2014 arrived on the Georgia Tech campus March 13 for the 2024 K-12 Inventure Prize State Finals 10th anniversary celebration.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"In this year\u0027s competition, 108 student teams all advanced from the online qualifier and regional qualifying events of the STEM invention\/entrepreneurship program."}],"uid":"36247","created_gmt":"2024-04-01 18:00:37","changed_gmt":"2024-04-04 14:22:06","author":"jwalls37","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2024-04-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-04-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"673572":{"id":"673572","type":"image","title":"K-12 InVenture Prize - March 2024","body":null,"created":"1711994774","gmt_created":"2024-04-01 18:06:14","changed":"1711994988","gmt_changed":"2024-04-01 18:09:48","alt":"Approximately 250 K-12 student inventors from 40 schools across the state \u2014 and for the first time, from select schools in Alabama \u2014 arrived on the Georgia Tech campus March 13 for the 2024 K-12 Inventure Prize State Finals 10th anniversary celebration.","file":{"fid":"256983","name":"InVenture Prize Finals-223.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/04\/01\/InVenture%20Prize%20Finals-223.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/04\/01\/InVenture%20Prize%20Finals-223.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1760932,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/04\/01\/InVenture%20Prize%20Finals-223.jpg?itok=yPPQtSqH"}},"673573":{"id":"673573","type":"image","title":"K-12 InVenture Prize - March 2024 - Panel on Patents","body":null,"created":"1711995320","gmt_created":"2024-04-01 18:15:20","changed":"1711995586","gmt_changed":"2024-04-01 18:19:46","alt":"Two high school student inventors, who are successfully building a business around a school safety invention, were part of a panel discussion on patents.","file":{"fid":"256984","name":"InVenture Prize Finals-250.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/04\/01\/InVenture%20Prize%20Finals-250.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/04\/01\/InVenture%20Prize%20Finals-250.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1430001,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/04\/01\/InVenture%20Prize%20Finals-250.jpg?itok=eiomNVV0"}}},"media_ids":["673572","673573"],"groups":[{"id":"361651","name":"Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics and Computing (CEISMC)"},{"id":"592706","name":"K-12 InVenture Challenge"}],"categories":[{"id":"42901","name":"Community"},{"id":"42911","name":"Education"},{"id":"42921","name":"Exhibitions"}],"keywords":[{"id":"178283","name":"K12 InVenture Prize"},{"id":"177613","name":"K-12 InVenture Prize"},{"id":"411","name":"CEISMC"},{"id":"191642","name":"Georgia AIM"},{"id":"46351","name":"K-12 education"},{"id":"192012","name":"K-12 STEM education"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}