Meet the 2025 National Invention Contest Winners!
Each year, Inventionland® Education hosts the National Invention Contest to spotlight student creativity, problem-solving, and innovation. Open to schools using our applied STEM inventing curriculum, the contest guides students through a hands-on, 9-step inventing process—the same one used at Inventionland’s world-famous headquarters.
From concept to prototype, students gain real-world experience in product development and storytelling. And this year’s entries from across the country didn’t disappoint!
Here are the standout winners from the 2025 competition:
Elementary School Winners
🏅1st place: “Furry Friends”
Created by Gracie Sypien, Lydia Yerace, Emma Delaney, and Anna Johns from Ehrman Crest Elementary (Seneca Valley School District).
Product description: We have a new innovative pet travel bag and bed. This transforms from a bag, carrying all the items you need for your pet into a comfy bed, wherever you may end up. It’s pet-approved.
2nd place: “Puck Power House”
Created by Sophia Dorus, Jordan Davison, Maddie Koehler and Maddox Paserba from Ehrman Crest Elementary (Seneca Valley School District).
Product description: This is a practice hockey puck. It will connect to an app and tell you how much force you hit the puck with and how fast the puck moves. It will help you gauge how you are improving or how different techniques work.
3rd place: “Royal Pets”
Created by Lillian Holden, Allison Dubon, Alice Do Couto Rivera, and Lena Cooper from Ehrman Crest Elementary (Seneca Valley School District).
Product description: Hate cleaning up your pets “business”? This is an innovative pooper-scooper that is fully equipped with a sinching bag, a light for nocturnal business, and more.
Middle School Winners
🏅1st place: “The Untie Not”
Created by Olivia Adams and Samantha Preist from Grove City Middle School (Grove City Area School District).
Product Description: This is a simple solution to shoes coming untied. A small mechanism gets attached to your shoelaces to keep the knot in place.
2nd place: “Need Guard”
Created by Ethan Cooke, Elijah Lawson, and Gavin Purdy from Grove City Middle School (Grove City Area School District).
Product Description: Needle Guard prevents losing the pump needle in a basketball, soccer ball etc, as well as helps prevent it from breaking in the first place.
3rd place: “Crayon Cast”
Created by Abby Borsa, Maggie Paxton, and Kinsley Elkins from Neil Armstrong Middle School (Bethel Park School District).
Product Description: Have you ever had a crayon break while using it? This product is a cast for your crayons designed to give the crayons more durability while using them.
Congratulations to all of this year’s young inventors! Your bright ideas are shaping a better tomorrow—one prototype at a time. Want your students to be next? Visit InventionlandEducation.com to learn more