Each year at INPEX, all of our exhibitors are eligible to win awards. These awards include gold, silver and bronze medals in a variety of different product categories, along with special awards, merit awards and other honors. Our international jury of judges also selects what they believe are the top three inventions of the show.

Here are the Grand Prix award winners from INPEX 2008:

Our second runner-up (receiving $2,000) was Mitch Marcovici for his invention the ScrewMaster™. This enhanced tool enables a user to tighten or loosen a screw or nut twice or four times faster while applying the same amount of torque. In addition to his cash award, Mitch also won a gold medal in the Gadgets category, a silver medal in Hardware/Tools and the special award for Best Invention of the Americas.

Our Grand Prix first runner-up (receiving $3,000) was Chua Kek Heng from Malaysia for his invention, DiagnoCARD – a medical mutation/variation screening system. The invention also won a number of other INPEX awards, including a special award for Best Invention of the Pacific Rim and three gold medals (in the science, medical and biology categories).

The winners of our highest award, the Grand Prix, were Peter Reuss and Ferdinando Cona for their invention, the PCW – Portable Carpentry Workshop. The PCW is an all-in-one workshop that requires no set-up or dismantling for a table saw, miter saw and router, and also includes personal storage for other tools. For receiving the Grand Prix, Reuss and Cona were awarded a $7,000 prize.

Congratulations to all the inventors who took home INPEX awards! I’ll post more information about INPEX award winners in the coming weeks.

Related INPEX posts:

1. Update on INPEX® 2008 Grand Prix Winner Fred Cona
2. 2008 INPEX Award Winners Posted On Line!!
3. INPEX® 2011 Award Winners Posted
4. Inventors from Across the Globe Receive Awards at the 2008 InventHelp INPEX Invention Show!
5. Thanks for a Great Show!