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 last name.
| Inventor | Grade | School | Invention |
| Nader Baptiste | 11 | Cesar Chavez High | Little Big Emotions |
| Gwendolyn Bartram | 5 | Reese (Erma B.) Elementary | Plant H20 |
| Kethan Bikkina | 3 | Parkmont Elementary | Magic SmartSleeve |
| Sedona Brooks | 5 | Soquel | Kitty Cat Snack Feeder |
| Parmesh Charan | 12 | Cesar Chavez High | Little Big Emotions |
| Juan Gonzalez Bobadilla Jr | 6 | Ceiba College Preparatory Academy | Tangled Dangled 22 |
| Miles Greenberg | 3 | Bayview Elem | Nerf Dart Picker Upper |
| Joseph Hayden | 5 | Soquel | Kitty Cat Snack Feeder |
| Eithan Hernandez | 4 | Watsonville Charter School of the Arts | Be Cappy: The Family Board Game |
| Addilynn Hyske | 5 | Reese (Erma B.) Elementary | Plant H20 |
| Judah Leota | 8 | Pajaro Middle School | Thermal Seat |
| Gustavo Magdaleno | 6 | Ceiba College Preparatory Academy | Wata Plant |
| Jaiden Kyle Mandigma | 7 | Archdiocese of Los Angeles | Door Defender |
| Rohan Milapuram | 11 | Irvington High School | Lockboard |
| Adira Mishra | 6 | G. M. Walters Middle School , Fremont | C-Orion : The Carbon Hunter |
| Marco Panait | 7 | Archdiocese of Los Angeles | Natural Disaster Hub |
| Jonathan Ramirez | 12 | Cesar Chavez High | Little Big Emotions |
| Andrea Romero | 8 | Archdiocese of Los Angeles | Alga Cards |
| Aurora Ruiz | 2 | Lincoln Elementary | Magic Claw |
| Aria Saxena | 2 | Hoover Elementary | MeteorScope |
| Shaurya Sharma | 7 | Stratford San Jose Middle | NatureWatch – AI powered Environmental Monitoring and Predic |
| Isabella Sousa | 4 | Bradley Elementary | Port-A-Sink |
| Alex St. Clair | 4 | Gateway School | Easy Pedal |
| Fern Stahlschmidt | 5 | John Muir Elementary | The Pawer Pack |
| Keerthi Subramanian | 1 | Oliveira Elementary School | Cap-N-Clean |
| Vishan Thimmukonda Varunkumar | 3 | Parkmont Elementary | Watchitizer |
| Isabella Torres | 8 | Archdiocese of Los Angeles | Bella Medi-Pop |
| Viyaan Velmurugan | 3 | Parkmont Elementary | Watchitizer |