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.

A select number of winning from the State Finals have been invited to represent Georgia at the competition that will take place June 5-7.

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.

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.

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.

On March 15, student inventors from across the state gathered on Georgia Tech's campus to participate in the K-12 InVenture Prize State Finals.