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The 11-year old who invented a gadget to prevent parents from leaving their babies in hot cars

An 11-year-old Nashville student has invented a simple device that could save lives.

After learning approximately 38 children die each year from being left in hot cars, young Andrew Pelham felt compelled to do something. He entered The Rubber Band Contest for Young Inventors, which is held each year in Akron, Ohio. (The city is also known as the rubber capital of the United States.)

There is only one rule for contestants – they must use rubber bands in their invention. With that in mind, Andrew created the E-Z Baby Saver and won second place, taking home US$500.

Andrew thought his amazing invention might be a cheap way to help parents remember when they have a child in the back seat. The E-Z Baby Saver is a simple device made of duct tape and rubber bands. The device renders parents unable to walk away from the car when a child is still inside. It is a strap that stretches from the back seat to the front and attaches to the driver's side door.

Andrew used his prize money to buy a laptop and create his website.

The 11-year old cancer survivor who invented a chemotherapy bag

When she was 8 years old, Kylie Simonds of Naugatuck, Connecticut was diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma, a cancer of the connective tissues. She is now in remission and recovering from the ordeal.

Throughout her illness, one of the obstacles she endured were I-V pole wires that would cause her to constantly trip. She also needed to help pushing the pole around because it was too heavy for her.

Kylie invented a pediatric IV backpack – a wearable, portable IV machine for kids receiving chemotherapy or transfusions. The bag even comes in colorful designs. She calls it the I-Pack.

Kylie's design won a prize at the Connecticut Invention Convention in August 2014. She has secured a patent and is trying to raise money to put the backpack into production.

The 13-year old who claimed to have invented a lollipop that cures hiccups

In 2012, a thirteen-year-old girl launched a potentially lucrative business built around her unusual cure for hiccups. Kievman's idea for a cure came after she was afflicted with a stubborn case of the hiccups two years before and decided to test a number of folk remedies, from sipping water out of an upside-down cup to drinking salt water.

Eventually, after curing her hiccups, the future doctor combined her three favorite remedies to form her own (patent pending) cure for the annoying ailment.

Her three part cure is composed of sugar, apple cider vinegar, and lollipops. While she claims she is still in the process of “tweaking the taste, ” her invention has already received a considerable amount of attention and has resulted in her enlistment of M.B.A. students, who will assist with launching her start-up.

She named her product Hiccupops.


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