POUR BOY; SPILL-FREE INVENTION WINS AWARD.Byline: Alex Roth Daily News Staff Writer Instead of crying over it, habitual Regular or customary; usual. A habitual drunkard, for example, is an individual who regularly becomes intoxicated as opposed to a person who drinks infrequently. milk-spiller Timothy Shin invented a way to keep it off the table. The contraption, which involves a suction suction /suc·tion/ (suk´shun) aspiration of gas or fluid by mechanical means. post-tussive suction a sucking sound heard over a lung cavity just after a cough. pump and tube, has earned the 9-year-old North Hills boy a second-place prize in a national competition for young inventors. Timothy will pick up the prize Friday in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. . The second-grader said his inspiration was simple enough: He was tired of grappling with a heavy carton of milk - and weary of nagging his parents to pour it for him. His invention allows him to pump milk into his glass through a tube. ``Instead of pouring it, I pump it in,'' said the boy, who wants to be a scientist when he grows up. ``So my mom and dad won't have to keep cleaning.'' Timothy created his Automatic Milk Dispenser last year for a second-grade science project at Balboa Gifted Magnet in Northridge. Timothy's creation earned him a $500 second-place savings bond Savings bond A government bond issued in face value denominations from $50 to $10,000, with local and state tax-free interest and semiannually adjusted interest rates. savings bond A nonmarketable security issued by the U.S. in the International Invention Convention, which honors young inventors in grades 1 through 9. This year's competition included 46 finalists from schools around the country as well as American schools overseas. The Grand Patent Awards will be presented Friday during the National Science Teachers Association Convention at the Las Vegas Convention Center The Las Vegas Convention Center is owned and operated by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and is located in Clark County, Nevada. It is one of the largest Convention centers in the world. At the end of 2004, the center had 3. . Sponsored by divisions of the Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster U.S. publishing company. It was founded in 1924 by Richard L. Simon (1899–1960) and M. Lincoln Schuster (1897–1970), whose initial project, the original crossword-puzzle book, was a best-seller. publishing company, the competition awards first and second prizes in two age categories. Timothy's father, Peter, confessed that no one else in the household makes much use of the child's contraption. That's because Timothy is the only one in the family who drinks milk on a regular basis, consuming three or four glasses a day. It is not, however, his favorite drink. That would be Mountain Dew mountain dew n. Illegally distilled corn liquor. . CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO (color) Timothy Shin, 9, of North Hills will be honored by the International Invention Convention. |
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