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On October 17, the lives of 23 teenage girls forever changed. High school students in Jessica Horton’s Science, Technology and Society Class at the Girls Leadership Academy of Arizona (GLAAZ) learned at an impromptu school assembly that they were one of only 16 schools selected nationwide (and the only school in Arizona) to receive the 2013 Lemelson-MIT Program InvenTeam grant for $7,500, which enables them to invent a unique drowning prevention device – the “WataWescue.”

Their invention is an inflatable shirt for children, to protect them from near-drowning incidents. 

To learn more, visit www.glaaz.org