Two Sixth-Graders from Santa Cruz’ Happy Valley Elementary School are among 40 California participants in the National Invention Convention, a program that asks grade-schoolers to develop ideas for useful things and then present them to an audience of technologists and entrepreneurs for judging.
More than 150 young people from California participated in the competition.
Jonah Guyer and Oliver Willet from Happy Valley school will participate in a finals event to be held July 2nd as an open-to-everyone Facebook Watch Party
Students from other Santa Cruz and Watsonville schools also participated in the Invention Convention. You can learn more about the event, the kids, and their inventions by following the links included with this story on KSCO.com/news.