Teem-ventors Solar Tent

This time it is a team of young teen-aged ladies helping solve a SERIOUS problem.

Excerpt: from www.mashable.com/2017/06/

12 teens invent solar-powered tent for the homeless

The teen girls from San Fernando High School worked on their invention over the course of a year. Come June 16, they’ll present it at MIT as part of a young inventors conference. The teens, none of whom had coded, soldered, sewn, or 3D-printed before they joined forces, won a $10,000 grant from the Lemelson-MIT Program to develop the invention.

They were recruited by DIY Girls, a nonprofit that teaches girls from low-income communities about engineering, math, and science, to go after the grant.

“I knew I wanted to apply for it, but I needed a team,” says Evelyn Gomez, 29, the executive director of DIY Girls. “I went back to my calculus teacher at my high school and did a hands-on recruitment activity.”

Most of the girls didn’t know each other before, but they quickly became close friends.