2 Jul 2020

Teenage inventor, future scientist

From Nine To Noon, 9:40 am on 2 July 2020

Thomas James' wheelie-bin moving robot has clinched him the Prime Minister's Future Scientist prize. An elderly neighbour's struggle to put out her rubbish for weekly collection inspired the 17 year old Burnside High School student to create a self-navigating mechanical device, the wheelie drive.