School For Pencils
Invented by 8-year old Emily Staudmyer
 

At the age of 8, Emily noticed that students often lose their pencils and cannot find them when they need them in class. Sometimes their desks are too messy to find a pencil and students are still digging around in their desks when the lesson begins. Emily decided to develop a way that kids would always know where their pencils were. 

Emily invented the School for Pencils. When a teacher hangs the School for Pencils near the classroom entrance, students can take a pencil when they come in in the morning and put it back into School for Pencils when they leave. Emily’s School for Pencils is a school shaped house made out of pencils that hangs on the wall of the classroom that stores pencils. This way students will no longer have to dig around in their desks for pencils - they are housed near the classroom entrance.

Grand prizewinner of the Maryland “Cool School Tools” challenge.