Lonza Bend announces winners of 32nd annual 2024 Inventerprise Contest
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- The winners of the 32nd annual Inventerprise contest have been announced!
Inventerprise is an annual problem-solving contest sponsored by Lonza Bend (formerly Bend Research), offered to all K-12 Central Oregon students.
Each year, the contest poses a question to spark students’ imaginations, challenging them to pursue inventive solutions to pressing problems. It is meant to foster critical thinking, research, and creativity.
This year’s prompt related to water conservation, and brought in 585 project submissions. Lonza volunteers spent an evening judging the entries, and selected the winners from each grade.
The middle and high school winning students receive prizes in value ranging from $25-$1,000. All of the winners are invited to the awards ceremony in February where they will get a chance to present their projects in person, participate in a variety of hands-on science demonstrations and indulge in liquid nitrogen ice cream!
Lonza also provides gift certificates for classroom supplies to teachers with high class participation in the contest.
————— High School —————
Grand Prize Winner
(will receive a $1,000 visa gift card)
Skye Knox
Runner Up
(will receive a $500 visa gift card)
Erynn Mitchell
Honorable Mentions
(will receive a $150 visa gift card)
Chase Hayden
Curran Jacobus
Breck Jones
————— Middle School —————
Grand Prize Winner
(will receive a prize of their choosing, ~$500 value)
Micah King
Runner Ups
(will receive a $250 Barnes & Nobel gift card)
Graham Finley
Lucas Myers
Honorable Mentions
(will receive a $25 Barnes & Nobel gift card)
Ryker Besser
Chris Kuhn
Solenne Perle
Hazel Adams
Lulu McMahon
Brenner Harrington
Ari Miller
Anya Kellberg
Lucie Wittwer
Blaire Eckman
Sadie Hanson
Ashlynn Lang
Kaylee Allen
Lily Pszczolkowski
Liam Chapple
Zuri Bekkari
Arianna Morley
Will Berliner
Jaden Mason
Nathan Parsons
Lottie Anderson
————— Kindergarten —————
Kepler Groza
Riley LaDelle
Penn Mendoza
Grayson Peters
Rowan Kohl
Cooper Marcos Castaneda
Jackson Pitney
Hailey Wheeler
Amelie Contreras
————— 1st Grade —————
Francesca Barnhart
Braydee Serbus
Jackson McClain
Hunter Petersen
Eli Ekhoff
————— 2nd Grade —————
Grace Myers
Ella Rodrigues
Dahlia Kehs
Finnley Kluck
Willow LeGalley
Tatum Cavanagh
————— 3rd Grade —————
Charlie Costello
Kolbe Thordarson
Scotland Godino
Jake Guidice
Virginia Jones
Arianna Lopez
Cecily Storey
Georgia Small
Angie Virgen
Jenesyss Renteria
Emma DeSapio
Lilly Fox
Kaelani Gibb
Amelie Henninger
Caroline Koleno
Chloe Cavanagh
————— 4th Grade —————
Mercy Myers
Benny Vecere
Phoenix Vaughan-Godridge
Oliver Bunning
Maddox Hellwich
Piper Thomas
Owen Ickes
Asher Paulson
Ajuni Kaur
Drew McGuire
Gigi Geers
Isabel Rodriguez Robels
Ava Ugas
Jacob Cravinho
Arya Huff
Clara Leason
————— 5th Grade —————
Madlyn Kahr
Miles Peoples
Sofia Eidukas
Hazel King
Jade Willis
Claire Osborn
Landon Crockford
Dan Dawson
Bryson Knight
Will Salmon
Fisher Steele
Eva Hessen
Raylee Sylvester
Natalie McAteer
Ava Ray
Dillon Ostendorff
Evelyn Webb
Bella Evans
Luna Kinz-Bush
Zepeda Serna
