16-year-old Invents Bus Alert
If Eric Forkosh has his way, the days of waiting on a street corner for the school bus to arrive will become a relic of the past.
Forkosh, a junior at Rambam Mesivta High School, created Bus Alert!, a handheld unit that uses radio signals to alert students and parents when the school bus is arriving.
The 16-year-old entrepreneur came up with the concept while waiting for 15 minutes in the icy cold, only to discover that he had missed the bus. “There has to be a better way to go about it,” he thought to himself.
On a recent evening, Forkosh presented the Bus Alert! working prototype that he built himself to a panel of judges at the first annual Gryfe-Levy Student Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
Larry Bellman, director of Touro College’s Entrepreneurial Institute, and organizer of this event said, “The market is potentially awesome. He (Eric) had all kinds of statistics. He’s a future business person who is destined to be very successful.”
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Angela Shupe on March 11th, 2009 10:00 am
That’s a brilliant idea!
While my daughter is in headstart, the bus comes to our door. However, once she hits elementary school, that’ll stop. That bus stops at the end of the drive I live across from and forces all of the kids in this area to wait in the rain, snow, freezing temperatures, for long periods of time. Something like that would be a lifesaver for the kids (and parents who have to wait out there with the elementary kids when they go to/come home from school).
Jaclyn on March 11th, 2009 11:11 am
That is a brilliant idea! good for eric to come up with it!!! i only wish that this invention had been created back when i was in school…i remember those icy cold winter day’s waiting for the bus freezing only to find out school was cancelled.
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