Bulat Aliaskarov, 11 years, Germany
Chiara Schmidt, 7 years, Austria
Daniel Alberto San Martín García, 9 years, Spain
Genevieve Myers, 9 years, United States
Kevin Sigismondi, 10 years, Italy
León Sandoval Estrada, 9 years, Mexico
Lía Dominga Escobedo Arros, 8 years, Chile
Ridaan Kharbanda, 8 years, India
Zoé Slinn, 6 years, Switzerland
These grand prize winners will be awarded a trip to Innsbruck, MED-EL’s international headquarters.
Overall, 215 children from over 20 different countries participated and sent in their ideas. From these entries the best and brightest children with the top 9 worldwide submissions were chosen to win. We would like to say thanks to everyone for participating, it has been fantastic to receive your creative and imaginative invention ideas. For those who sent in an entry but were not one of the lucky winners chosen, we thank you for your efforts and we will be sending out participation certificates to you soon. Again, congratulations to all the young inventors, and especially to our winners! We can’t wait to welcome you in June.