Scottish pupil named a Time magazine girl of the year for solar-powered blanket design | Scotland

A Scottish schooldgd is called a 'girl of the year ” Timeaday After they invented a sensible driven thermal blanket to help rough sleep to keep warm.

Rebecca Boy, 13, came up with her draft after she looks homeless people with a subzero temperatures on the streets of her home city, Glasgow, in winter. She said her message was to young people, “If you see a problem, you think you can fix, you can do something about it.”

She does nine other girls of all over the world on the first list of the magazine to the financing light girls. It builds on the existing women of the year list of the year list, with the express intention to recognize young female role models world.

Rebecca's Design – a sensible backpack with an electric blanket in an engineering Award in a UK-wide competition that has developed 70,000 since it is developed as a prototype.

The engineering soles, who sponsored the competition, and produced 30 of the blankets and distribute them to six homeless guiding in the Glasgow before this year, with plans to make 120 more.

Rebecca, a student at Kelvinside Academy, said, “The idea of how hard it is for people, and first it was just a drawing. I was never imagined that would actually be asked.”

“Know something I met, helps others feel myself. As a result, I can think that the building is simply to form is just construction. It is so much more than that.”

The list is launched in Lego group, as an extension of them that campaign build, who challenges stereotypes and encourages girls to see themselves as builders.

Other participants in the list include Rutendo Shadaya, a 17-year-old Zimbabwean-New Sealander fantosboarder Coco Yoshizawa, 15, from Japan and an organizationaladry, 12, from the US. Nine from the 10 girls are again as lego figures on the cover of the new edition.

Launch the list, the time Senior Editor watcha said, “These girls is waiting for anything. Their generation is not waiting – it begins to wait and denies them as permanent.”

Rebecca said, “I think that there is a really important message to see what you can be interested, you can do anything you will always follow or contribute your own path.”