Competition “Leonardo da Vinci” Revealed Young Inventors

On November 15, 2019, the awards ceremony of the 9th Annual Competition of Young Inventors and Researchers “Leonardo da Vinci” took place. The competition, aim is rise interest in innovations and technical progress among teenagers, facilitate continues improvement in education, to reveal pupils distinguished for their inventive talent and stimulate the development of pupils’ creative thinking and practical skills, is held since 2010. Every year the Mechanics Section of the Department of Inventions and New Varieties and Breeds of the National Intellectual Property Centre of Georgia - SAKPATENTI is involved in the evaluation process of the projects submitted at the competition.

At the event, held in the exhibition hall of the Writers’ House, the grand prize of the competition “Leonardo da Vinci” was awarded to Rostom Nioradze and Keta Aptsiauri, pupils of Cervantes School “AIA-GESS”, for their project “Polar Bear – Flexible Light Transmitting Array in the Role of a Static Solar Panel Guide and Use of Peltier Elements to Utilize Superfluous Heat Flow”. Mr. Genadi Lebanidze, Chairman of the National Intellectual Property Centre of Georgia Sakpatenti, awarded the winners of the competition together with the organizers of the competition - Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation, the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport of Georgia, as well as partners of the competition - Millennium Challenge Foundation-Georgia, San Diego State University – Georgia and TBC Bank officials. The special prize established by Sakpatenti was granted to Nino Otarashvili, 12th-grade pupil of Tsisier Dighmelashvili Georgian-French School, for her project “Ecological Nephelometer”. The project presented an apparatus for determining the concentration and amount of dust particles in air, its operation is based on the determination of the amount of dust particles dissolved in water and/or floating, and measuring of their dispersion Stimulation of innovation and inventive activity in the country is one of the priority directions for Sakpatenti.