imagine If We Had More Kids Like This One

Anyone who reads the news commonly or who keeps up with current events, knows that the country is in deep trouble. Unrelenting fiscal debt, expected unemployment figures, and consumer belief levels that have not been this low since the Great Depression. So it is heartening when I read in the newspaper something more positive, such as the story about fourteen year old Cheyenne Hua, a ninth-grader at Hunter College Junior High School in Queens, New York, who is coming up with ideas to prevent fatalities from speeding drivers and to ward off future victims of such calamities as hurricanes and flooding.

Cogitating rather than dilly-dallying as most teenagers her age, Cheyenne concept about ways to prevent accidents on a rather busy street near her house. Looking out from her window, Cheyenne witnessed many accidents occurring because of careless lead-foot drivers putting the pedal to the medal without regard to the lives they might be risking. Her idea to create a speed bump which would detect an approaching speeding car and thus deploy itself, won her the opportunity to compete at the 13th each year Discovery 3M Young Scientist Challenge. At this final event, Cheyenne stands the opportunity to nail the coveted award of America's Top Young Scientist along with a ,000 prize. Not bad for cogitating while Looking surface her bedroom window.

As though this one invention were not enough, Cheyenne has also come up with other ingenious idea, one which could have implications for inherent victims of future hurricanes and other nasty acts of nature. Prior to Hurricane Irene, which lashed out at the eastern seaboard, Cheyenne put forth a flood safety idea: a kind of waterproof sheet that would wrap nearby a house and essentially rise with impending flooding. The sheet would have built -in sensors that would monitor the level and water and thus rise or fall accordingly. The sheet thus would protect the house from water damage. I think insurance companies, hard-hit over the years by damages incurred from mother-nature-like storms, would welcome and even maintain such ideas.

Cheyenne's parents are obviously very proud of her. In fact, Cheyenne gets a pass on most household chores because of the time she spends cogitating on her inventions. Then again, if more kids did what Cheyenne did, I think most parents would agree to give them a pass on other mundane chores. well the insurance fellowships would agree. Let's give our hats off to such promising young kids.

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