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.
K-12 Educators
Empowering 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.
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.
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Participation across Georgia
Since 2013, K-12 InVenture Prize has continued to expand its reach and invite schools and school districts across the State of Georgia to participate. Initially launched in central Georgia, K-12 InVenture Prize has expanded its reach to include Southwest Georgia and is currently making strides in Northeast Georgia. As of 2024, the program has welcomed and started working with Habersham County, Hall County, and Troup County, depicted by the striped counties on the map.
| Total Participation since 2013 | 50,000+ students | 900+ teachers |
| Participation in 2024 | 3,030 students |
| 28+ school districts | |
| 46% female student inventors | |
| 33% Title I schools |
Recent Participation in Southwest Georgia
Since 2022, Georgia Tech’s K-12 InVenture Prize and Georgia AIM team has partnered 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!