In this year's competition, 108 student teams all advanced from the online qualifier and regional qualifying events of the STEM invention/entrepreneurship program.
Around 140 elementary through high school students participated in South Georgia Innovation Day on Feb. 9, presenting their own inventions as a part of Georgia Tech’s K-12 InVenture Prize competition.
Judging will take place during the in-person State Finals on March 13.
Georgia AIM selected to highlight the importance of community-based work in achieving equity.
Judging will be conducted virtually and asynchronously between Feb. 12-16.
The K-12 InVenture Prize/Georgia AIM project at Georgia Tech was awarded a $25,000 E2 Energy to Educate Grant from Constellation Energy Corporation that will bring solar robot cars to schools in rural parts of the state.
Members of the Georgia AIM team traveled to Thomasville to meet with local partners, manufacturers, and business leaders to discuss AI impact.
Since the Mock Pitch review process is online and asynchronous, judges can complete the pitches whenever they have free time.
Teams from Georgia Tech and Southern Regional Technical College (SRTC) are working together to synthesize the results of a recent workshop with teachers, business, and community leaders in Thomasville Georgia.
Georgia AIM will support a total of nine inter-related projects throughout the state and is designed to increase job and wage opportunities in distressed and rural communities and among historically underrepresented and underserved people.