Welcoming the 2024-2025 School Year!

To new and returning teachers and students, welcome to K-12 InVenture Prize! We are excited to host another year of programming and competition. Head over to the Current Competition for updates about the new program cycle.

Announcements


Parental Consent Deadline Extended! *Update*

Historically, Georgia Tech's Youth Programs required K-12 InVenture Prize to request parents to consent to their student(s) participation in K-12 InVenture Prize events twice a year, once at the beginning of the fall semester and once at the start of the spring semester. We are excited to announce that Georgia Tech's Youth Programs approved K-12 InVenture Prize to require parental consent only once at the beginning of the program year, covering all K-12 InVenture Prize events for the entire program year!


Mock Pitch Judging Registration Opens Early Oct. 14

Mock Pitch is an optional but highly recommended K-12 InVenture Prize event designed for inventors to pitch their idea and receive preliminary feedback.


Mock Pitch Submission Opens Early Oct. 26

Mock Pitch is an optional but highly recommended K-12 InVenture Prize event designed for inventors to pitch their idea and receive preliminary feedback.

Upcoming Events

 

 



What is K-12 InVenture Prize?

The K-12 InVenture Prize is an invention and entrepreneurship program at Georgia Tech's Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing that challenges students to identify real-world problems and design novel solutions through analysis, creativity, and the scientific method.

 
 

Mission

Our mission is to develop the next generation of engineers and entrepreneurs by making invention education accessible to all students and teachers. We hope to broaden participation in STEAM by bringing authentic invention and entrepreneurship experiences to K-12 teachers and students.

Community

K-12 InVenture continues to build a community that empowers the next generation of young inventors and future workforce and welcome you to join! Our program provides K-12 educators, K-12 students, community members, and sponsors opportunities to collectively inspire students to unlock their creativity and critical thinking skills through invention and entrepreneurship.

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K-12 Educators

Supporting educators with access to an innovative invention curriculum, competition events, and professional development training to help teachers shape and build their students' invention and entrepreneurship educational experience.

K-12 Students

Delivering learning experiences and competition events that empower students as inventors and entrepeneurs and a platform to showcase their innovative solutions to real-world problems.

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Community Members

Bringing opportunities to inspire K-12 students and share their expertise with young learners by judging student projects at competition events.

Sponsors

Directly impacting the future of K-12 education in Georgia through partnerships and/or financial contributions.

News

2024 K-12 Inventure Prize Team Grocery Eyes’ Nellie Klodner and Anna Borsh were presented with an official resolution praising their accomplishments by Georgia House Representative Kimberly New of district 64.
Forty teachers from across the state worked together this summer in K-12 InVenture Prize professional development workshops that have been reimagined with a new focus.

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About K-12 InVenture Prize

K-12 InVenture Prize encourages students to innovate and solve real-world problems. Learn why K-12 teachers and students love learning with the K-12 InVenture Prize’s curriculum and competition and what the program brings them.

Decade of Discovery

Joined by students, teachers, family, friends, as well as Georgia Tech students, staff and faculty and community partners, K-12 InVenture Prize celebrated its 10th anniversary this past year. “Our teachers make this program possible,” says Danyelle Larkin, newly appointed Program Director for K-12 InVenture Prize.

South Georgia Innovation Day

Georgia Tech’s K-12 InVenture Prize and Georgia AIM team is partnering with schools, businesses, the technical college system, and community leaders in Thomasville Georgia to create new high-tech job pathways that focus on innovation, entrepreneurship, and artificial intelligence technologies!

Tiny Mic Series Collaboration with Georgia Public Broadcasting

Innovation meets inspiration in the exciting new digital series, "Tiny Mic, Big Designs," which highlights the incredible creativity and ingenuity of student inventors participating in Georgia Tech's K-12 InVenture Prize. A collaboration between Georgia Public Broadcasting’s education and the K-12 InVenture Prize team, the series is hosted by the dynamic, Emmy Award winner Ashley Mengwasser. Mengwasser guides viewers through each episode, providing insights into the inventive process and the personal stories behind these groundbreaking projects. As viewers follow along, they'll be immersed in a world where curiosity fuels discovery and where young inventors are empowered to make a real impact on the world around them.

A collaboration between the Georgia Public Broadcasting’s education and K-12 InVenture Prize teams, the series launched July 9th with new episodes released every #TinyMicTuesday on GPB Education’s Instagram page and on K-12 InVenture Prize’s Instagram and Facebook pages.