Elizabeth Rintels, 12, of Keswick, VA wins $10,000 Grand Prize in the BKFK Going Green Challenge. Elizabeth won for her "Water Watcher" invention, a acute accessory advised to adviser and admeasurement baptize usage.
Stamford, CT -- By Kids For Kids (BKFK) and The Weather Channel today appear that Elizabeth Rintels, 12, of Keswick, Virginia, won the admirable cost in the civic Going Green Challenge. Elizabeth won for her "Water Watcher" invention, a acute accessory advised to adviser and admeasurement baptize usage.
Realizing just how abundant baptize it took to crop a shower, Elizabeth began gluttonous a way to enhance acquaintance of baptize usage. After acquirements that abbreviation her battery time alone by one minute would save about 1,000 gallons of baptize per year, she was apprenticed to acquisition a smarter way of utilizing this admired resource. As a result, Elizabeth created "The Water Watcher," a accessory that can be attached to any faucet. It signals a red ablaze and sounds a beep every time a half-gallon of baptize is used.
I was captivated if I begin out I'd won the BKFK Going Green Challenge! At home, we try to use things added than already and recycle at the recycling center. We aswell try not to decay activity or water. It was this attention acquaintance in my home that aggressive 'The Water Watcher.' We are admiring to be affiliated with the BKFK affairs because it fits so anon with our ambition to advice adolescent humans become added abreast and acquainted of the altitude and environment. We congratulate the champ on her avant-garde abstraction of ecology and barometer baptize usage I would like to congratulate Elizabeth on her thoughtful, eco-friendly creation. It's actual simple to dream abroad in a hot shower, not caring about ones baptize usage. 'The Water Watcher' elevates alertness about baptize consumption, consistent in all-important baptize conservation. In accession to her $10,000 banknote prize, Elizabeth aswell will aswell accept a allusive "connection to reality." She will accept the befalling to absorb a day "shadowing" one of the eco experts from Leonardo DiCaprio's 11th Hour Action website, http://11thhouraction.com/.
The Going Green Challenge launched in October, 2007 and challenged America's adolescence to actualize new eco-ideas for our alteration planet. Thousands of entries caked into the BKFK website, www.bkfk.com. Ed Begley Jr., Hollywood's greenest actor, was a celebrity adjudicator in the competition.
"I was captivated if I begin out I'd won the BKFK Going Green Challenge!" said Elizabeth Rintels, "At home, we try to use things added than already and recycle at the recycling center. We aswell try not to decay activity or water. It was this attention acquaintance in my home that aggressive 'The Water Watcher.'"
"We are admiring to be affiliated with the BKFK affairs because it fits so anon with our ambition to advice adolescent humans become added abreast and acquainted of the altitude and environment. We congratulate the champ on her avant-garde abstraction of ecology and barometer baptize usage," said Shari Pace, carnality admiral of licensing, The Weather Channel.
Norman Goldstein, Founder and CEO of BKFK, commented, "I would like to congratulate Elizabeth on her thoughtful, eco-friendly creation. It's actual simple to dream abroad in a hot shower, not caring about ones baptize usage. 'The Water Watcher' elevates alertness about baptize consumption, consistent in all-important baptize conservation."
About By Kids For Kids Co.:
By Kids for Kids® (BKFK®) is a adolescence business and media aggregation partnering with the world's arch corporations to accommodate a belvedere to foster, share, showcase, and commercialize adolescence addition and entrepreneurship. Their mission is to inspire, actuate and activate the avant-garde spirit aural all adolescent people.
The carefully captivated Stamford, CT-based Corporation has been committed to authoritative adolescence account a absoluteness back 2003. Through its website (www.bkfk.com) and its amusing association (Idea Locker™), online competitions, TV appearance (Think Big™), Magazine (Possible™), press, and apprenticeship outreach, the aggregation engages adolescence in the US and about the world. BKFK® youth-created articles are accessible nationally and serve as a attestation to the ability of adolescence addition and amusing entrepreneurship.
More advice about the aggregation and its successes allowance adolescent innovators, is accessible online at www.bkfk.com
About The Weather Channel:
The Weather Channel®, the nation's arch provider of national, bounded and bounded acclimate advice and programming, is a 24-hour acclimate arrangement which can be apparent in over 96 actor U.S. households. Its Web site, weather.com, alcove added than 35 actor different users per ages and is consistently ranked #15 a allotment of all Web sites by Nielsen//NetRatings. The Weather Channel aswell operates The Weather Channel HD, Weatherscan® which is an all-local 24/7 cable network, The Weather Channel Radio Network, The Weather Channel Newspaper Services, and is the arch acclimate advice provider for arising technologies. The Weather Channel is endemic by Landmark Communications, Inc., a Norfolk, VA-based, abreast captivated media company.
Note to editors:
Elizabeth Rintels is a 12 year old average schooler from Keswick, VA. Elizabeth is absorbed in art, accouterment design, autogenous designing and inventing. She aswell brand to play sports. In the future, Elizabeth ability be a designer, artist or athlete. In accession to acceptable the admirable cost of the BKFK Going Green Challenge, Elizabeth won aboriginal abode in the BKFK Virginia Challenge, aswell for the "Water Watcher" and she aswell took 3rd cost in that aforementioned antagonism for her "Crane purse," which is a fashionable purse aggressive by cardboard cranes.
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