Value over Money
“Because we come from low-income families ourselves, we can’t give them money,” the twelfth-grader says. “We wanted to offer something besides money,” Daniela’s classmate, Veronica Gonzalez, added.
Credits Mashable
That was the birth of their invention: a solar-powered tent that folds into a rollaway backpack.
The girls and ten other classmates had never done any hands-on engineering work before but managed to learn how it’s done on the go by trial and error with the help of YouTube and Google. They hoped that one day, their tent would improve the lives of homeless people in their community.