Cross Creek Elementary School students recently competed at the K-12 InVenture Prize State Finals at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. There were about 100 teams competing at the state level, and two teams from Cross Creek won special awards.

Fourth graders Ivey Clapper and Isla Farlow won at the state level in the category of Animal and Pet Care. Their invention, Cool Dog Collar, won 2nd place at the regional level. Katie Bruce, Ellie Butler, and Abigail Bone, also fourth graders, won the People's Choice Award at the state level with their invention entitled "Splash Guard." The Splash Guard project won 1st place at region.

The K-12 InVenture Prize State Finals at Georgia Tech is an in-person field trip experience for student teams who advanced from the regional qualifiers. Students were required to have a tri-board detailing their invention process and attend in person to present their invention and design process to judges in person.

Around 140 K-12 students participated in South Georgia Innovation Day presenting their own inventions as a part of Georgia Tech’s K-12 InVenture Prize competition. Winning at the regional competition qualified them to compete at the state level.

K-12 InVenture Prize is an invention and entrepreneurship program at Georgia Tech's Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing that challenges students to identify real-world problems and design novel solutions through analysis, creativity, and the scientific method.