Wheelchair Backpack Holder
Inventor: Chandler
Invented at age: 12

He saw a problem: Chandler saw his neighbor who is in a wheelchair struggling to get her belongings out of her backpack hanging on the back of her Wheelchair. Kids who are confined to wheelchairs have difficulty independently reaching their backpacks that hang on the back of the chair. This is frustrating and forces them to rely on help from others.

He had an idea: To create a device that would hold the backpack on the back of the wheelchair and with an easy to use lever enables the user to swing the backpack around to where they can reach it to retrieve items from it.

He developed it: Chandler sketched out his idea and with the help of his family set to build his invention with steel tube, elbow fittings, springs, and nuts and bolts.

The idea was a hit: He won the Craftsman/NSTA Young Inventors Contest. He was inducted into the National Gallery for America's Young Inventors. He won the DaVinci Award for designing for accessibility.