Sammy inherited the “creative gene” from my smoking hot wife. He inherited his attention span from his father. He was really excited this year to participate in the annual Invent Idaho contest, to be held during March. Due to my work schedule, March is perhaps the craziest month of the year for our family. Add into the mix that Mommy was in the process of finishing up her first semester returning to college, and you can imagine that the stress level was a bit higher than normal in our household. Needless to say, a certain mother and father did not share in their son’s excitement for the contest. We may or may not have even tried to bribe the child to get out of it. Thank goodness that Sammy has a very creative uncle (thank you Gheen) that shared in his enthusiasm. His masterpiece invention was the Legovac.
Other than some help from his Uncle Gheen on the assembly of the prototype, Sammy did all of the work for his invention on his own. He was very proud of himself (and so were we).
His hard work and creativity were rewarded with the first place prize in his age and category at the local competition. His invention was then sent on to the state-wide contest where he was awarded first place again.
We are hoping that he keeps some of his incredible inventing skills for the future so that he can be our “retirement plan.”
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