By Bob DeMarco
Max is a sophomore at Boston University Academy. Max is 13 years old.
Max is an inventor.
Max's great-grandmother suffered from Alzheimers disease.
Max, a inventor, came up with a elementary but ingenious idea. He started a public charity called Puzzles To Remember. A smashing play upon words.
Puzzles To Remember collects brand new as well as in great condition puzzles as well as distributes them to facilites that caring for patients pang from Alzheimer's as well as dementia.
Max's great works did not go unnoticed. Max was awarded $2500 for this effort. Max Wallack was declared a 2009 Build-A-Bear Huggable Hero. Care to theory what Max did with his brand new found 2500 bucks?
Bought a brand new IPod? Put it in a bank for college? Guess again.
Max incited around as well as donated a $2500 to a Boston University School of Medicines Alzheimer's Disease Center.
After celebration of a mass about Max, I motionless to Google his name.
Lo as well as behold. Last year at a proposal age of twelve Max did even better. He won a laptop computer as well as a $10,000 esteem from a Intel Foundation. He called that invention a Home Dome.
What is a Home Dome? Well fundamentally Max took rabble as well as incited it in to an inexpensive shelter for a homeless. The Home Dome is built with wire, plastic bags as well as styrofoam make-up peanuts.
At a developed aged age of 7 Max won an award for a Great-Granny Booster Step -- a wooden step with a handle that authorised his parents mother to step in to a mini-van.
Here is a shot of Max in a Home Dome.
I have no thought what Max is operative upon these days. All I can say is -- demeanour out Alzheimer's. Max is upon a case.
You can click a links in a article to learn some-more about Max as well as his inventions. Or, we can send a puzzle.
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