Thank you so much to everyone who submitted something to the DIY Project. Thank you for your hard work and effort. We couldn't do this without you. Now without further ado, this year's winners are...

Grand Prize

The project taking the Grand Prize this year is My Scratch Japanese Interface from Taben at Mountain Oaks School in San Andreas, California. This program will teach you Japanese vocabulary and sentence structure. Once you've studied you can play a game that will test how well you remember the Japanese you've learned! We love that this tool not only teaches you but helps you practice what you've learned with the game. Congratulations Taben and the entire MO Techies squad!

Check out My Scratch Japanese Interface.

Runner Up

Our runner up goes to Everyday Problems Part 1 and Everyday Problems Solved Part 2 from karen826 and lori826 at J.H.S. 157 Stephen A. Halsey in Rego Park, NY. Their project gives advice for dealing with everyday problems in two formats, one visual prezi and one audio podcast. The prezi is beautiful and the podcast is awesome. They even included their planning work and the script for the podcast! Congratulations karen826, lori826 and the entire Halsey's Mouse Squad!

Check out Everyday Problems Part 1 and Everyday Problems Solved Part 2.

Honorable Mention

We want to give an honorable mention to a team from Baruch College Campus High School in New York, New York for How To Create An Alarm Clock Slipper That Turns Off Only When You Step On It. They created an incredibly thorough text guide that shows how to create an alarm clock that you turn off by stepping on a force sensor you can put in a slipper using equipment found in our Garage Robotics curriculum. Way to go Baruch Tech Team Innovators!

Check out How To Create An Alarm Clock Slipper That Turns Off Only When You Step On It.

Shout out for Wins!

It's not too late to give out wins to your favorite DIY entries! Give wins for creativity, technical know-how or inspiration. We want to give a special shout out to some of our favorite wins. Thanks to joshuaworldwide from Eisenhower Mouse Squad in Santa Clara, California who gave an awesome win to our grand prize winner with some constructive feedback on how to improve the project in the future. Way to go joshuaworldwide!

Thanks again to everyone who created D.I.Y. projects!

It was incredible to see the many skills and interests of Mouse Squads across the nation, so thank you for sharing with us! Mouse Squads of America, we salute your amazing maker-bility!