Indonesia Inventors Day Report 2015

The 2nd International Young Inventor Awards (IYIA) was held on June 7th – 9th, 2015 in Universitas Negeri Jakarta, Indonesia. As one of event for young innovators, IYIA gives opportunity to all young innovators around the world to share their creative idea in innovation. Not only exhibition and competition, there are also several agenda in IYIA such as International seminar in Education, Education Fair from some universities in Indonesia, awarding night, and also Jakarta cultural tour to Mini Park of Indonesia (Miniature of Indonesia).

There are 12 countries participated and more than 500 participants with about 200 inventions presented in IYIA this year. The participants came from elementary school, high school, and also universities. The IYIA itself has several categories to be judged such as Technology, Education, Engineering, Chemistry, Biology, Medication, Environment, Sains and many other categories. For prize, the participants will be awarded for Gold, Silver, Bronze and there are also Grand Prize, Semi Grand Prize, Best of The Best also scholarship opportunity from university partners which are BINUS University, Pelita Harapan University, Multimedia Nusantara University, Swiss German University, and Ciputra University.