Below is the timeline for the 2026 Georgia Tech InVenture Prize competition:
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2026 InVenture Prize Kickoff Session
Cypress Theater, John Lewis Student Center
Find out what the InVenture Prize is all about! Network and hear from past participants of this Emmy Award-winning interdisciplinary innovation competition.
Registration Deadline
Registration requires you to describe your idea and provide important background information. It also lets us know that you intend to compete for the InVenture Prize. Please review the rules and eligibility requirements prior to registering.
Preliminary Round
Exhibition Hall
Open only to competition participants, judges, and the Georgia Tech community, the preliminary round is an open gallery round in which inventors pitch their ideas and judges score each invention.
Semifinal Round
Exhibition Hall
A quick pitch competition where each student or student team goes on stage before a panel of judges and has 3 minutes to pitch their invention, followed by 10 minutes of Q&A and comments from the judges.
2026 InVenture Prize Finals
Ferst Center Theater
In this televised round, the inventors of the final six inventions will each give a three minute presentation of their invention to a panel of expert judges before a live audience, followed by three minutes of Q&A.