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The purpose of this article is to analyze the National Contest of Korean Students Scientific Inventionmanaged by the National Science Museum during from 1979 to 2007. We are investigated total 350reports, which were sampled by 1st, 6th, 11th, 16th, 21th, 26th and 29th National Contest winners whowere acquired above silver medal. The conclusions of our study are as follows. Firstly, according tothe fact of numbers of contest winners, there is no relation to provincial population. Especially,Chungcheongnam-do Province was get a high score comparison to it's population. Secondly, a lot ofstudent's inventions are derived from household utensils, because students were deeply considered toconvenience when they had thought and invented something for contest. Thirdly, teachers were themost helpful mentors to students when they were invented and produced the inventions. Thus we mustconsider about teacher's influence to improve the National Students Science Invention Contest. Lastly,school subjects which were more related to students' inventions were technology and science inelementary and secondary school curriculum.