REQUIREMENTS

INVENTION DOCUMENTS

2025 Requirements

Invention Log
Display Board
Prototype
Pitch Video (Unedited)
- *Tip* If you have a quick pitch or commercial add a QR Code on display board for judges to easily view (*optional)

*Scroll down for details about each requirement. Iterations (changes/additions/etc.) are allowed continuously throughout the process.

A notebook where you record your ideas from the first sketches to the final dimensions.
This includes drawings, written ideas, data/research you collected, etc. Feel free to add pages, glue in doodles you made outside the log to show all your thoughts as you created.
Iterations (additions/changes) are allowed throughout the process, including between your school site/district event, states, nationals, and globals.
Click on the image on the left for an example.

Invention Board.pdf

Tri-fold board that displays the following information:

Students include information about the following stages of the process:

Display does NOT need to look exactly like the examples seen here.

A physical representation of your invention.
It can be made of recyclables or found materials--try to keep materials cost low.
It does not have to work.
If it is an App it may be a series of images of the various screens.
Iterations (additions/changes) are allowed throughout the process, including between your school site event, regionals, states, nationals, and globals.

Students must prepare a video (between 3-6 minutes) which walks the viewer through their process from problem to prototype.
Video CANNOT be edited. The video must be done in one take.
If using a cell phone please have the phone in landscape.
If possible, have your board and prototype in your video.
*Optional*Place the link/QR code to your video on your board. Free QR generators are available online.