Alumni

Past Award Winners & Participants

2024

2024 California Invention Convention including link to Awards Ceremony

2024 Participants

2024 National Invention Convention

Be inspired! Watch this 4 minute video including interviews with young inventors from across the US.

2024 California Invention Convention for Northern/Central California

The 2024 Northern & Central California Invention was a grand success. Our venue – the California State Railroad Museum – was a simply incredible place to hold our convention.

Big thanks to the Museum and their staff for their contribution in making this event so successful!

The results from our 2024 Convention are now posted here on our website. Check out all the winners as well as the list of all the participants. We are so proud of each and every one of our young inventors.

If you missed the Virtual Awards Ceremony – or want to see it again – here is the link . The video is about 50 minutes.

2024 California Invention Convention for Southern California

Over 500 students from Southern California participated at the 2024 Southern California Invention Convention held on March 23, 2024 at El Camino College in Torrance California. The results are posted on their website – California Invention Convention Southern Region. These young inventors are creating amazing practical solutions for a wide-range of problems!!.

2023

2023 California Invention Convention Results including link to Awards Ceremony

2023 Participants

2023 National Award Winners from California Invention Convention

2023 Americas Award Winners from California Invention Convention

2022

2022 California Invention Convention including link to Awards Ceremony

2022 National Award Winners from California Invention Convention

2022 Award Winners

2022 Participants

Winner at 2022 Global Invention Convention

Congratulations to Violet Cummings, for her 2nd Place award in the K-2 category at the 2022 Global Invention Convention! Violet is a 2nd grader from Victor Elementary School in Torrance, and her invention is The Crayon Holder. In her words: “We have a lot of broken crayons at home and at school. They are hard to find and hard to hold. The invention prevents the crayons from breaking when they are in the holder. It will also let you put broken crayons in the holder and draw with them.”

3rd Grader Awarded Patent

Vennela Attili, 3rd grader at O.N.Hirsch Elementary School in Fremont, CA, was recently award a Patent for her invention “Happy Sleep”. The patent is for a stuffed animal or doll that has body temperature, and breath sounds and movement. The stuffed animal or doll in bed with a child can lull the child into a feeling of having a living, breathing person or animal to comfort her and help her fall asleep. Vennela first presented a prototype of her invention at the 2019 California Invention Convention when she was just a kindergartner. Her tagline for her invention was “Happy Sleep makes Healthy Kids” and she hoped that her invention would help sick children especially those going through chemotherapy or were in isolation. Vennela was award a Merit Award at the event for her invention.

Vennela was guided through the patent process by Don Boys, President of Central Coast Patent Agency – a full-service Patent Law firm – and California Invention Convention Board member. Many thanks to Don – and big Congratulations for Venella for her hard work on her invention and being awarded a Patent.