Greenwood Elementary School first-grader, Ella Woodside, garners top honor for her earth-friendly solar-powered safety dog leash invention.
WASHINGTON, DC – June 17, 2014 – Six-year-old Brookeville resident Ella Woodside was concerned that the fast cars she saw from her living room window might not see the dogs being walked by her neighbors at night. This was her motivation for creating the Solar Safety Leash, a light-up leash that charges using sunlight instead of batteries because, as she says, “it’s better for the earth.”
Judges of the Smithsonian-Cricket Media Global Kids Invention Challenge agreed that Woodside’s invention solves an important real-world problem, naming her a 2014 Top Winner in this year’s Challenge.