- AVA, New York: A 13-year-old central New York girl’s ingenuity with Bubble Wrap has earned her the top prize in an invention competition sponsored by the maker of the packaging product.
Elmwood Park, New Jersey-based of Sealed Air Corp. announced Monday that Lillith Bulawa (BUHL’-uh-wuh) of Ava won the grand prize in the fifth annual Bubble Wrap Competition for Young Inventors.
After reading about Americans who lost crops to recent flooding, Bulawa designed a self-watering garden that sits in a box atop a raft made of Bubble Wrap.
Her invention won her a $10,000 savings bond. She’s a seventh-grader at Lyndon H. Strough (strow) Middle School in Rome.
Bulawa received the award at a ceremony Saturday in New York City. The nationwide competition is open to students in grades six through eight.