
20/07/2025
🔥 Safety Innovation from Young Minds
Representing SLI The Sidney Ledson School (and also a Mensa member) , Grade 6 student Maya Kara was named the Grade 5/6 Winner and received the Community Choice Award at the 2025 National Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge for her invention—Smart Stove, an AI-powered system designed to prevent kitchen fires before they happen.
What made her entry shine:
• The idea was inspired by a related experience in her own home, which sparked her commitment to finding a safer, smarter cooking solution.
• Smart Stove uses AI to detect abnormal heat, sprays potassium acetate to extinguish potential fires, and sends real-time alerts to users and emergency services.
• Judges were impressed by her technical vision, app interface, and revenue projections—estimated at $4.6 million in the first year alone.
📖 Learn how Maya combined innovation and empathy to design a life-saving product—link in bio.