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The Young Inventors Showcase is now in its 37^th year and we need your help! Please consider hitting the donate button, even a $10.00 donation would be great to show support for our program. Also, spread the word!

LET'S BRING YIS TO COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA!

Campaign Objective: The purpose of this campaign is to enable us to hire a full time STEM coordinator for the Columbia, SC area. We will also hire a grant writer, with a focus on Columbia, SC. We are jump starting a "re-start" of the YIS program here in the Houston Gulf Coast region.
History: Prior to the economic shutdown, YIS was in 30 schools, 3 school districts, and the University of Houston, which held a summer "Camp Invention" for inner city kids. Overall, we were serving over 3,000 aspiring young inventors, in grades 1st-8th, every year. The shutdown cratered our program.
HOUSTON: Our 2024-25 Preliminary and Finals Schedule:
Preliminary: Currently, we have two 2024, in the Spring of 2024 preliminary competitions: 1) Wilson Montessori, with 270 kids from diverse backgrounds in April, 2024. 2: Sablatura Middle School, in Februay, 2024. We will need judges for both events!
Finals: We will be having our YIS finals hosted by the ION Center.. See: www.ionhouston.com.
Free Patent Application to the top finalists: We provide the top winners a free patent application.
Jimmy Fallon Show: We have also had the Jimmy Fallon Show feature our winners on a quarterly episode of young inventors.

Our YIS Program Guide has been adopted globally: Our 91 page program guide, which we developed to take our program virtual due to the shutdown, is now being adopted by the Kakuma Refugee camp in Kenya, Africa.
Virtual "Phase Two" Incubator: We have built an online/virtual incubator at www.younginventorsshowcase.org to provide each winning young inventor with a commercially viable invention a landing page to launch their invention as a start up venture, with licensing or manufacturing pathways.

Help launch a YIAA Chapter in Columbia, South Carolina!

By Young Inventors Association of America

Help launch a YIAA Chapter in Columbia, South Carolina!

Help empower our Columbia, SC youth to become lifelong innovators!