REQUIREMENTS

INVENTION DOCUMENTS

2024 Requirements

*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.
Place the link/QR code to your video on your board. Free QR generators are available online.

The Judging Rubric should be reviewed so you can see what the judges are looking for.
Judging will take place online between March 11th-20th, 2024; In-person judging will take place March 23rd, 2024