VERY compassionate 12-year-old

[Eireann]

This kid deservedly won $10,000 and a new laptop for designing a homeless shelter:

http://greenbuildingelements.com/200...er-from-trash/

It's easy to assemble, and I hope it will keep some people from freezing in cold weather. The kid is very articulate, with a wide vocabulary, and a genuine interest in helping others.

[Dreamstalker]

That is amazingly cool.

[blas]

Aww..what a good kid

[Mike Taylor]

Max Wallack, you're one of the good ones, kid!

[XCashier]

What a great idea. And a smart kid!

[tropicsgoddess]

What an incredible kid! Great job, Max!!!

[ReadyToRetire]

The cynic in me thinks that whoever starts producing these things is going to charge a price that homeless people can't afford anyway.

[fireheart]

Nice work

Although it reminds me of something I saw on the Ellen DeGeneres show once. A bunch of kids were doing their own inventions. A lot of them were good-like one that was designed to stop your shopping getting rained on (it consisted of a retractable shadecloth-like cover that fixed onto the child seat), a cake cutter (that tended to mush up the icing first it was a metal thing that looked like a cookie cutter), but the one that my mum -ed at was a 6-year-old kid who created an "underwater see-er" which consisted of binoculars on top of a SCUBA mask. When it came time for him to demonstrate his invention, he had a kiddie paddling pool set up, but rather than kneel at the edge and stick his head in, he climbed INTO the pool and laid face-down!