East Central team heads to MIT to showcase their prototype

MIT has picked a team of East Central High School students to show their invention prototype at the college in June.

Tenth-grader Kameryn Bardwell tells News 25 that hundreds of high school teams applied, but MIT chose only eight.

Right now, the students are raising money to make the trip to Cambridge where they’ll show judges their easy-to-use wildfire shelter.

The shelter would be accessible even for people with physical disabilities and it’s made of an array of flame-proof materials used by NASA and fire departments. “We are going to Cambridge, Massachusetts to present our project at the MIT campus. But today we are fundraising because MIT does not fund our travel costs. We are filing for a patent right now and we are hoping to actually go bigger with this project.”

If you would like to donate, visit their GoFundMe page by clicking here.