AVA, N.Y. (AP) — A 13-year-old central New York girl’s idea to use bubble wrap to create a floating garden has earned her first place in a national competition for new inventions using the packaging product.
Elmwood Park, N.J.-based of Sealed Air Corp. announced Monday that Lillith Bulawa of Ava won the grand prize in the fifth annual Bubble Wrap Competition for Young Inventors.
After reading about Americans who lost crops to recent flooding, Bulawa designed a self-watering garden that sits in a box atop a raft made of Bubble Wrap.
Her invention won her a $10,000 savings bond. She’s a seventh-grader at Lyndon H. Strough (strow) Middle School in Rome.
Bulawa received the award at a ceremony Saturday in Manhattan. The nationwide competition encourages students in grades six through eight to design an invention using Bubble Wrap.
