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Meet some of the best young inventors that could make our world better.

There are hopes in our future, as younger and younger generation becomes great inventors to solve many problems that we are facing.

From creating wheelchair, making electric car, decomposing plastic bags, to preventing birds from flying into windows, these great youngsters are worth of praise.

Wheelchair Invention for Guatemala

These four young men: Rudy Roy, Ben Sexson, Daniel Oliver, and Charles Pyott designed this wheelchair as part of their senior year project for Professor Ken Pickar’s class Sustainable Engineering for the Developing World. They found themselves learning about how difficult it is for disabled people in Guatemala to get around. Also, a wheelchair could cost around $400 and up, which are “twice the national average monthly household income.”

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These four young men start a nonprofit organization after their graduation, and work to build a wheelchair to accommodate Guatemala’s streets condition for around $40 a chair.

Texas Teen Build His Own Electric Car

Lucas Laborde, a Texas teenager, built this car from a kit called Bradley GT II his father gave him. He worked on it for 150 hours, putting in 80-pound lead-acid batteries, which could travel for 40 miles between charges, at the speed of 45 mile per hour.

What remarkable about this young man is: he built it in less time, at a lower cost than big company, and the total cost is about $10,000.

16-Year-Old Creates Solution to Decompose Plastic Bags

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Daniel Burd is a 16-year-old boy from Waterloo, Ontario, who won a $30,000 in scholarships at the Canada-Wide Science Fair for inventing a solution to decompose plastic bags in less than three months.

His invention includes ground up plastic bag into powder, mixed with common household chemicals such as dirt, yeast, and tap water to promote microbe growth. Daniel allowed this mixture to sit for three months, tested it with strands of plastic bags until he found the most effective solution.

With this incredible invention, Daniel Burd may help accelerate plastic degradation all over the world.

Invisible Invention Warns Birds About Deadly Window

Charlie Sobcov is an eighth grader at Turnbull School in Ottawa. He invented painted, plastic decals for his school science fair project, which can be stuck right on the middle of the window pan.

These decals are almost invisible to humans, and the painted color is ultraviolet. Birds can see the decals, but humans can’t. Charlie later found out that about 500 million birds in Mexico, United States, and Canada died crashing into windows a year.

This incredible young man hopes to save the lives of those birds that smashed into skyscrapers, which were in the path of their migration with his painted decals. His experiment should be ready by early February.

Our future is beaming with these talented young people, and many more to come. With each new generation, we are blessed with new geniuses.