Tucson's Brightest Young Mind Shines at National Invention Competition

An eighth-grade student from the Tucson area was honored recently for their ingenuity at the eleventh-annual RTX Invention Convention U.S. Nationals, powered by The Henry Ford. They were among over 70 award-winning K-12 inventors from across the nation who were celebrated during the June 5 awards ceremony. The ceremony featured a keynote from Julian Kage, an Invention Convention alum and the founder and CEO of Exactics, a biotech company inspired by his eighth-grade invention. This year, 513 stu