Congratulations to all the Merit Award winners and their winning inventions. This award is given to students in each grade level whose inventions are deemed by the judges to be exemplary for the
grade and age level. Each student will receive a Merit Award ribbon just like those pictured above as well as a set of Inventor Trading Cards provided by the Silicon Valley US Patent Office. Many thanks to them!
Inventors are listed alphabetically by Invention within grade.
| Inventor | Grade | School | Invention |
| Jos Tegebo | 2 | Bradley Elementary | Camo Collar |
| Bobby Wall | 2 | Bradley Elementary | Comfort Recovery |
| Nysa Chhajed | 3 | Parkmont Elementary | Classroom Paper Passer |
| Dhruv Garikapati | 3 | Parkmont Elementary | Plant Care |
| Isla Rivera | 3 | Bradley Elementary | Light Up Umbrella |
| Nova Almand | 4 | Watsonville Charter School of the Arts | PAWS OFF! Pencil |
| Amelia Andrade | 4 | Fremont Open Plan | DisPLAY Desk |
| Riya Srivats | 4 | Harvey Green Elementary | Library Navigator 1.0 |
| Isabel Bassmann | 5 | Bradley Elementary | Kernel Katcher |
| Madison Moules | 5 | Bradley Elementary | Kernel Katcher |
| Eligh Oeun | 5 | John Muir Elementary | Ecosaver |
| Sol Adams | 6 | Alternative Family Education | Household Biogas Digester |
| Avielle Cynor | 6 | Lawrence E. Jones Middle School | The Laundry Buddy |
| Rishab Srivats | 6 | John M. Horner Middle | Radio De-Interruptor 3.0 |
| Randy Torres | 6 | Ceiba College Preparatory Academy | The Cologne/Perfume Finder |
| Rosie Weese | 6 | Lawrence E. Jones Middle School | The Laundry Buddy |
| Chloe Degroot | 7 | Weed Union Elementary | Inch Pinch |
| Avah Evans | 7 | Weed Union Elementary | Reading N Color |
| Koji Tsugawa | 7 | Alternative Family Education | Household Biogas Digester |
| Ashwath Ram | 8 | Basis Independent Silicon Valley | The ROCKing Solution for Eutrophication |
| Ayan Bera | 9 | Mission San Jose High School | ThermaSun: Novel Day Night Thermal Solar Clean Energy Harvesting Device in Automobiles with Wireless Connection |
| Shaunak Jog | 10 | American High School | Study Buddy |
| Shirz Zahoori | 10 | Campolindo Highschool | GetBackUp: Smart T-shirt for back care and posture control |
| Anish Bhethanabotla | 11 | Lynbrook High | MediCure – Early Detection of disease using Machine Learning |
| Karthik Subramanian | 11 | American High School | NovaQuest: Harnessing Machine Learning for Supernovae Classification |