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10-Year-Old Raises $50K For His Invention That Prevents Child Hot Car Deaths
Bishop Curry is a 10- year-old 5th grader from McKinney, Texas, and he's also the inventor of a proto- type device that is designed to prevent children from dying in hot cars. His lifesaving de- vice is called Oasis, and it at- taches to children's car seats. If it senses that a child has been left behind in the seat, it will start to blow out cool air until the child is rescued.
Initially, Curry said his idea was to make a car seat cover with three fans, but now he also wants to create a full car seat with the ability to link up with a vehicle’s air condi- tioning system and turn it on automatically.
His Motivation Curry was inspired to cre- ate the device, after a 6-month old baby in his community died after accidentally being
left in a hot car for 4 hours. After doing some research, Curry found that hot car deaths of babies and pets are tragically common especially in the summer months. In fact, according to CNN, the number of children that died after being left in a hot car
tripled in 2016.
Bringing The Idea To Life Curry’s father loved the idea, and immediately filed
Bishop Curry, founder of Oasis which prevents hot car child deaths.
for a patent. But he also real- ized that they would need about $20,000 for develop- ment and manufacturing. So, together they launched a Go- FundMe crowdfunding page that has already raised more than $50,000 - more than double what their initial goal was.
They are using the funds towards the attorney fees that are needed for the provisional patent, the protoyping fees, and for locating a manufac- turer that is capable of mass producing the device.
Meeting The
Right People
Although only 10-years old, Curry has already man- aged to meet with some of the right people in the industry.
Last year, he and his dad at- tended the Center for Child Injury Prevention Conference, where he presented his car seat idea to car seat manufac- turers.
Toyota also flew them both to the Toyota Technical Cen- ter in Detroit, where they got the opportunity to witness live safety tests on vehicles.
And, Curry has even had a one-on-one conversation with the director of engineer- ing and program management for Evenflo, one of the leading companies that manufactures car seats and child devices.
For more details about Bishop Curry and his Oasis device and/or to make a crowdfunding donation, visit www.gofundme.com/endhot- cardeaths.
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