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 (Green Building Elements) Max Wallack won Design Squad’s "Trash to Treasure" contest.
12-Year Old Boy Builds Homeless Shelter From Recycled Trash
FEBRUARY 26, 2009David Johnson, Citizen Journalist12-year-old Max Wallack won Design Squad’s "Trash to Treasure" contest using nothing but, well, trash! Building a dome which looks like a Mongolian yurt, in order to provide shelter for the homeless, Wallack used plastic, wire and packing peanuts.
The prize for the design contest was $10,000, a Dell laptop, and a trip to Boston. But Max had this to say, “I don’t really care about the money. I care about helping people.”
“When I was six,” Max said, “I won an invention contest that included a trip to Chicago. While there, I saw homeless people living on streets, and beneath highways and underpasses. I felt very sorry for these people, and ever since then, felt that my goal and obligation was to find a way to help them. My invention improves the living conditions for homeless people, refugees, or disaster victims by giving them easy-to-assemble shelter.”
For more on this story, including a photo of the home-dome, check out this link: greenbuildingelements.com/2009/02/26/12-year-old-makes-homeless-shelter-from-trash
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