Last year,
gave $100 awards to outstanding young inventors in Society Affiliate Fairs with middle school participants around the country. This is the second year of a three-year grant where young innovators will be recognized. The prize was especially created to reward young inventors whose projects exemplify the ideals of inventive thinking by identifying challenges in their communities and creating solutions that will improve lives.
It was while volunteering his time at the humanitarian aid organization, Medshare, that San Ramon, California middle schooler,
Gatik Trivedi, first became interested in improving the quality of life of diabetics. There, he observed that packages of critical medical equipment and supplies sent to developing countries always contained invasive glucose meter strips. He found himself thinking, “Wouldn’t it be a painful process to go through that every day?”