Kids Gift Card
Invented by 9-year old Scott Barnhill
 

At age 9, Scott was searching for the key card to get into his family’s hotel room. In order to find it he had to sort through a clutter of credit cards in his father’s wallet. The problem was that there was a different plastic card for everything from airline mileage clubs to YMCA memberships to hotel room keys to gas cards. Even in school he had an I.D. card, a bookstore card and a door entry card. 

In late 2006 Scott Barnhill's Security One Card invention received its first licensing deal with the introduction of the BKFK eCOM Gift Card. Scott's unique invention will be the significant technological feature of the BKFK gift card, developed by pre-paid card specialists eCOM Financial. Dubbed the "Allowance Card", the BKFK eCOM Gift Card allows parents to reward kids while tracking their purchases. The card's major feature is Scott's invention which, together with back-end software already developed by eCOM Financial, will enable multiple retail promotions all to exist and activate from one magnetic strip. Scott's idea was to combine multiple cards into one and he designed a magnetic card system whereby a retail store, to a hotel, to a gas company could give the card holder an additional magnetic strip for an already existing plastic card. The additional strip would contain the information for that specific company only and one card will then be multi-functional and would streamline the wallet.

* 2006 Licensing deal announced for Scott's invention with eCOM Financial to launch the BKFK Kid's Mastercard
* 2004 was awarded commercialization honors by BKFK
* 2004 LeTourneau University Invention & Design Contest
* Named 2004 “Innovator of the Year” by the Maryland Daily Record
* Won the 2003 Student Ideas for a Better America Competition
* Scott has appeared on several on news programs including CNN, ABC World News, Nikkei Marketing Journal, and Baltimore Magazine.