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District 15 Students Win 'Young Inventors' Awards
Two students from Thomas Jefferson School, one of 19 schools in Community Consolidated School District 15, have been selected as third-place regional winners in the 2001 Craftsman/National Science Teachers Association Young Inventors Awards Program.
Peter Badovinac, a fifth grader at Thomas Jefferson, was recognized for his “Wastenopaste” dispenser that conserves toothpaste and eliminates messy tubes.
James Kuo, a sixth grader, won for his invention of a “supported shovel,” which features a hollow “elliptical lump” in the shovel spade to add more leverage and space.
Both students will receive $250 U.S. savings bonds.
Nearly 3,400 elementary students nationwide accepted the challenge of the Young Inventors Awards program to invent a new tool or rethink an existing one. The program’s goal is to get children involved in science and honor their creative ideas. Only 36 students—including Badovinac and Kuo—were named national finalists or second- or third-place regional winners.
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