Anna Bemiss is a 9 year old girl from Connecticut who has type 1 diabetes.
She has to bring her glucose meter, her insulin pump, tests strips and more, in a bag wherever she goes. Sometimes, she likes to bring her doll along, and it is hard to hold both objects. Anna combined the two and invented the "D-girl Backpack".
The "D-pack" is designed to be strapped onto her doll's back like a backpack. It can hold all of her necessary equipment for living with T1D.
Anna decided to make the pack for the Enfield Invention Convention.
"First, you have to come up with a problem in your life, then you come up with an invention to solve it," Anna said.
After coming up with the prototype, she had to design the finished product.
Anna even learned a new skill: to sew by hand.
Anna says that if she ever patents the "D-girl Backpack" or other diabetes related inventions she would donate the profits to juvenile diabetes research.
Anna Bemiss: 9 year old diabetic doll lover and inventor of the "D-girl Backpack"
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