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A good article from the guradian about women garden shed inventors and a certain lady who used to spend time in here grand dads shed, inventing, she is now an award winner.

Not many teenagers can say they have contributed to changing the world, but Emily Cummins has a credible claim. Last year, at the age of 19, she was named innovator of the year in the British Female Inventors and Innovators Awards for her solar evaporation refrigerator. Made from sustainable materials, it enables developing countries to refrigerate medicines and food without electricity.

Cummins, who is now studying business at Leeds University, began inventing things in that spiritual home of British ideas, the garden shed, at the age of four, when her grandfather gave her a hammer. “I used to spend hours in his shed,” she says. “He would mess around, turning a lawnmower into something else. With the leftover parts, he taught me and my cousins how to use machinery. I got a buzz from being creative and by the time I got to secondary school, I was using pretty hi-tech tools.”

Some more info on Emily from makeyourmark.
image nicked from them as well.

now cmon share your shed, we need more women sheddie.

For more information on the British Female Inventor of the Year award, go to gwiin.com or call 0207-749 4834. Nominations close on February 8.

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