Water shortages. Agricultural stability. Affordable technology. Inventors strive every day to identify problems like these and to solve them elegantly. But who really has the solutions to these problems? The answer may not come from a world-renowned laboratory, but from a middle school student living next door to you.

Take for example 12-year-old Mackenzie Dix and her unique creation “Fresh Chute”, an invention that solved the age-old problem of ripped cereal bags and cereal staleness. In 2014, Mackenzie redesigned the cereal box and bag, took home top honors and a $2,500 college scholarship for this invention at the 2014 Invention Convention Southwest Ohio Regional Competition.

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