The White House Science Fair has selected two teenage inventors from Connecticut to showcase their inventions later this month, the nonprofit Connecticut Invention Convention announced.
Lilianna Zyzkowski, 14, and Mallory Kievman, 16, are both alums of the nonprofit CIC’s inventor curriculum, which is supported by area companies.
Kievman, a student at Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor, will bring her nutritional supplement, Hiccupops, which are touted as a way to suppress hiccups.
She has contracted with a Texas company to produce the product.
Zyzkowski, a student at Indian Mountain School in Lakeville, will bring her PillMinder prototype, which is a pill lockbox linked to a smartphone app that provides medication reminders. She is working on a commercial version with SaferLockRX.
More than 15,000 people applied to present their inventions at the March 23 fair. Only 100 were selected.
