Twelve-year-old Ling Guan Yee and her sister, Yan Ru, 9, of SK St Anthony Bintulu; and Nathanael Lim Yee Ning, 10, of SJKC Kai Ming in Bintulu emerged victorious for their invention called “B-Beep”.
The champions also earned the Young Innovator Award from Singapore-based Citizen Innovation, in recognition of their creativity, Bernama reported. The lightweight and simple B-Beep, created using BBC micro: bit – an ARM-based embedded hardware system designed by the BBC – is a portable device that can be connected to the handphones of parents through Bluetooth, via an application which is able to track their children.
“B-Beep can prevent children from being kidnapped, cut waiting time for parents and reduce traffic congestion at roads surrounding schools,” Guan Yee told Bernama.