Thank you to...
Our 2021 donors...
Tesla ($5,000 - $120,000)
Fuller ($1,000 - $4,999)
Philipp Schmaelzle
Salk ($100 - $999)
Dwight and Gayle Aspinwall
Andrew Lamb
Curie ($50 - $99)
Supporter ($10 - $49)
Marc T. Jones
Andreas Tsigkanas
Our 2020 donors...
Tesla ($5,000 - $120,000)
Anonymous Donor
MOSS
Protocol Labs
Margaret Robinson Read
Fuller ($1,000 - $4,999)
Ian Smith
Salk ($100 - $999)
Tulasi Ravuri
Network for Good (Anonymous)
Natalia Corona
Marc Jones
Jamie Alex Cohen
Curie ($50 - $99)
Cristian Holper
Kamal Thakur
Hamish Meares
Supporter ($10 - $49)
Nancy Reed
Our 2019 donors...
Tesla ($5,000 - $120,000)
Robert L. Read
Margaret Robinson Read
Fuller ($1,000 - $4,999)
David Jeschke
Salk ($100 - $999)
Avinash Baskaran
Curie ($50 - $99)
Supporter ($10 - $49)
Marc Jones
Awards
Public Invention does not generally pay its volunteers (there are rare exceptions.) We feel it is very important therefore to recognize people as much as possible. We do not give awards to everyone who volunteers, though we try to recognize everyone.
The highest award we present is "Best Public Inventor", because the volunteers who actual invent things are the most important contributors.
However, the growth of Public Invention depends on recruiting invention coaches, so the "Best Invention Coach" is the second most important award we present.
Annual Awards 2021
Nathaniel Bechard
Best Public Inventor, 2021
For the PolyVent
Victor Suturin
Best Invention Coach, 2021
For the PolyVent
Sabia Abidi
Most Active Board Member, 2021
For RespiraCon II and Mentoring Opportunities
Veronica Stuckey
Best New Public Inventor, 2021
For the Passive Ferrofluid Check Valve
Leith Greenslade
Special Recognition, 2021
For RespiraCon II and Organizing Demand
Marc T. Jones
Honorable Mention Board Member, 2021
For the Sunlight Regulatory License
Lauria Clarke
Best Addition to a Research Paper, 2021
For “VentMon: An open source inline ventilator tester and monitor.”
Ben Coombs
H.M. Addition to a Research Paper, 2021
For “Open-source hardware and the great ventilator rush of 2020”
Megan Cadena
Best Staff Contribution, 2021
For Outreach Coordination
Miriam Castillo
Best Volunteer Staff Contribution, 2021
For Volunteer Recruitment
Audrey Rushing
H.M. Volunteer Staff Contribution, 2021
For Social Media
Ben Coombs
Greatest Contribution, 2021
For “the Ox”, VentMon, and VentOS
Christina Cole
Most Impactful Writing, 2021
For the Oxygen Concentrator Maintenance
Diego Aspinwall
Best Student Writing, 2021
For Geotagtext, A Tutorial: A Free Geotagging Web Application Composed of Free Tools
(No Plaque for this group award:)
Christopher J Fang, Kaitlyn Wang, Stephanie A. Ponce, Concepcion C Appio-Riley, Sana A. Mohamed, and Samuel Robedee
Best University Team, 2021
For EcoPot
Anual Awards 2020
Pierre Lonchampt
Special Recognition, 2020
For QA/RA Assistance to the Entire COVID-19 Pandemic Response Community
Erich Schulz
Special Recognition, 2020
For Community Leadership to the Entire COVID-19 Pandemic Response Community
Halimat Atinuke Farayola
Best New Public Inventor, 2020
For the Moonrat Project
Marc T. Jones
Most Active Board Member, 2020
For the FDA sharing proto-license and Libre Planet 2020
Megan Cadena
Best Addition to a Research Paper, 2020
For “Modelling the impact of rise time on ventilator performance”
Avinash Baskaran
Best Academic Publication, 2020
For “Controlling a variable geometry truss tetrobot with an isomorphic puppet controller”, ICMME 2020
Juan Enrique Villacres-Perez
Best Student Contribution, 2020
For COVID-19 Vent-List and “Modelling the impact of rise time on ventilator performance”
Jerry Chang
Best Educational Media Production, 2020
For Rapd E. coli Video Production
David Jeschke
Invention Coach, Honorable Mention, 2020
For the Math Tablet Project
Chris Ferguson
Best Invention Coach, 2020
For the Moonrat and Rapid E. coli Projects
Ben Coombs
Greatest Contribution, 2020
For the PIOC, VentMon, and VentOS Projects
Lauria Clarke
Best Public Inventor, 2020
For the VentMon Project
Annual Awards 2019
Almost everyone who works for Public Invention does so as an unpaid volunteer. It is therefore especially important that we honor their contributions, and occasionally those outside our own community. Please join me in congratulating the 2019 winners of recognition from Public Invention:
Megan Cadena
Best Mathematical Contributions, 2019
For the Softrobotmath Project
David Jeschke
Best Invention Coach, 2019
Avinash Baskaran
Best Public Inventor, 2019
Stephanie Liu
Most Active Board member, 2019
Annual Awards 2018
Almost everyone who works for Public Invention does so as an unpaid volunteer. It is therefore especially important that we honor their contributions, and occasionally those outside our own community. Please join me in congratulating the 2018 winners of recognition from Public Invention:
Keeshan Patel
Best Public Inventor, 2018